McCain calls for tax cuts, corporate responsibility

Source: USA Today

PITTSBURGH — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Tuesday said he will try to enact sweeping tax cuts for the middle class but end them for corporate "special pleaders" if he wins the White House in November.

On a victory lap through this state while his Democratic rivals continue to battle each other in advance of the April 22 primary, McCain delivered what his campaign billed as a major speech on economy here, sandwiched between two fundraisers that netted the Arizona senator $500,000, according to Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman Robert Gleason.

McCain, 71, presented himself as a free market Republican with a populist streak.

He promised to freeze most government spending, cut taxes and rein in "traders and speculators" whom he blamed for the current credit crunch.

"We need to make a clean break from the worst excesses of both parties," he said.



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This message could work for him I just wonder if the Chamber of Commerce will spend some of that $60 Million they have sitting around to go after "populist" candidates :eyes:

like he was pushing a 'flat tax' that would ruin the middle class, specially if one is a single person.

That's been working out for us so well these past seven years and three months. :eyes:

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trickle down economics? :sarcasm:

We're all being pissed on.

That works, right? Right?

"I don't know much about economics" McCain now has a plan to save the economy? And guess which spending will be frozen. There isn't much of a "middle class" left to enact "sweeeping tax cuts" for.

edit: Oh, I forgot the headline. "Corporate responsibility". Isn't that where big business "polices itself"? I am too disgusted to even laugh at that one.

He used to have them. He used to call for tax increases on the rich and tax cuts for middle class. I remember him in the debates against Bush in 2000 saying things that our side actually likes. Now since he needs those rich repukers money he has backtracked big time. This is a guy who voted against the bush tax cuts for rich people in 2001. Now he has become their lapdog begging for a hand out. Whats really funny though is those conservatives who he needs to vote for him despise him anyway and hate him for railing against wall street. He's not going to get their votes. He should get back that independent streak and start saying the right things.

He just says the shit he thinks will work in the situation.

It's not a matter of having balls. It's not like he really believes anything good or believes anything for that matter. He just says whatever the fuck it takes to get elected to a position for his own ego.

At least Mitt Romney was unintentionally funny. McCain isn't even amusing. He's a just an old, boring fucker who is barely literate.

Now that is funny because the rich are a lot of things but stupid isn't one of them.... They don't pay their fair share now and if the government increases taxes ... The the rich recoup the money by taking it out on consumers by raising prices, they take it out on workers by cutting payrolls ... as long as they get their piece fuck everybody else.....

Tax increases for the rich... You know what the government needs to do...it needs to make Oprah, Bill Gates, the CEO's of the fortune 500 companies and every hollywood actor have wealth limits.... thats right ... 1 million is more then enough for anyone to live a substantial life on... everything over a million will be liquidated and turned over to the federal government to create new programs to really help Americans get ahead...

NOW THAT IS FAIR...

Its radical, and I like it. Of course the "rich" will argue that if you take away their incentive to get richer they will stop working for it. I say fuck em. Then the people making that million will be people who do care and have incentive even if their wealth is capped.

Of course since the rich run everything, own everything including the entire government and both parties we have zero chance of ever seeing that happen short a revolution.

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They actually believe their own bullshit. If that lunatic gets elected we're in for the final days.

McSame's hammer is the tax cut.