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Article: To Listen Is Taxing; New campaign ads distort, rather than enlighten.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 10, 2008
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BARACK OBAMA and John McCain have important differences on tax
policy. These are fair game for campaign ads, and no one expects 30-
second spots to be suffused with nuance. But Mr. McCain's latest
attack on the Obama tax plan crosses the line from reasonable
argument to unacceptably misleading.
"Obama voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000," the
announcer warns. The basis for this statement is the senator's vote
for the fiscal 2009 budget resolution, a nonbinding blueprint that
assumed that all the Bush tax cuts would expire as scheduled.
However, Mr. Obama has repeatedly said he wants to extend the Bush
tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 a year. If anything,
he ...