2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE COMPARISON TALKING POINTS



ISSUE


JOHN McCAIN



BARAK OBAMA



Favors new drilling offshore US



Yes



No



Will appoint judges who interpret the law not make it



Yes



No




Served in the US Armed Forces



Yes



No



Amount of time served in the US Senate



22 YEARS



173 DAYS



Will institute a socialized national health care plan



No



Yes



Supports abortion throughout the pregnancy



No



Yes



Would pull troops out of Iraq immediately



No



Yes



Supports gun ownership rights



Yes



No



Supports homosexual marriage



No



Yes



Proposed programs will mean a huge tax increase



No



Yes



Voted against making English the official language



No



Yes



Voted to give Social Security benefits to illegals



No



Yes



CAPITAL GAINS TAX



MCCAIN



0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax.



OBAMA



28% on profit from ALL home sales. (How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.)



DIVIDEND TAX



MCCAIN



15% (no change)



OBAMA



39.6% - (How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama becomes president. The experts predict that 'Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market, yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.')



INCOME TAX



MCCAIN
(no changes)



Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $31,250



OBAMA (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)



Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
Under Obama, your taxes could almost double!



INHERITANCE TAX



MCCAIN



- 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)



OBAMA



Restore the inheritance tax



Many families have lost businesses, farms, ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will only lose them to these taxes.



NEW TAXES PROPOSED BY OBAMA



New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet. New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already) New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity) New taxes on retirement accounts, and last but not least....New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!



















You can verify the above at the following web sites:



http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/election/2008/index.html



http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.taxes.html

http://elections.foxnews.com/?s=proposed+taxes



http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/politics/articles/mccain_obama_offer_different_visions_on_taxes.html

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/barack_obama/


http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/john_mccain/

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Obama is going to give all that money back, I mean he couldn't possibly want the money for himself.

The light has descended upon him,
he is the one.

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Tom Herman
Independent Voter from Orlando, Florida

Giving "it" back would mean giving it to those he would take it from.

If that were so ....why take it in the first place?

No dumbass ...... Obama would take it from those who paid it ..... an give it to those who who didn't pay it.

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A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

I hear Obama is a nice guy, and what your saying doesn't sound nice at all.

Obama loves us, he is the one chosen by god to lead this country to great change and infinite greatness. Obama will sit at a table with all the terrorists and they will look upon him, and see the golden light from above, and know that he is the one.

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Tom Herman
Independent Voter from Orlando, Florida

I heard McCain loves us also. He's having political orgasms just thinking about how if he could hood-wink the low information conservative voters in putting his old feeble Alzhiemer ridden ass into the Republican Dictator House, McCain can continue four more years of the Bush Administration....and maybe sprinkle in the draft, the Great Depression, and WWIII while he's at it.

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