- Companies are moving off shore for two reasons – high operating costs usually associated with Unions and high corporate tax rates in the
How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more than one hundred million Americans?
- Making the Bush cuts permanent isn’t relief for millions of Americans?
a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?
- It’s always been offered as a choice – keep your same old crappy SS or chose to invest over the long term and get better returns (4% vs. ~10%)
when the average American family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George Bush.
That’s the promise of
- Where is Barack’s brother? Living in a shack on $1 a month.
Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.
- The companies are leaving to get tax breaks… the only way to make them stay is to sweeten the deal
I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.
- who defines what a small business is and what a start up is? Imagine the power a person has who can wave away the tax burden for a company.. and what happens when a company reaches the edge… one more employee or $1 more of profit and WHAM you are now paying taxes?! Where is the incentive to grow and create more jobs.
And I’ll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy – wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can’t ever be outsourced.
- and as you phase out coal and other previous energy jobs, where do those jobs go? The 150 billion can and will come from our current energy companies if it makes sense to do it. Otherwise you are just creating a permanent energy subsidy coming from the very pockets you are trying to keep change in.
if you commit to serving your community or your country, we will make sure you can afford a college education.
- So if I’m an idiot, as long as I talk to some elderly people I can get a free ride? Who defines what serving in your community is? Doesn’t it negatively affect the idea of service if you start making people think the reason to do it is for a cash reward?
Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don’t, you’ll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves.
- Um… you’ve got to be kidding me, just where is this money coming from? The coverage Congress gets is something like $25K a year at the bare minimum.
And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day’s work
- This canard is so old and wrong. The closest analogy I can come up with is… It’s comparing a basket of 10 apples, 5 oranges and a pear with a basket of 2 apples, 3 oranges and 7 pears. If apples get paid more than oranges more than pears the numbers will say its unfair – even if apples get paid the same as apples.
Now, many of these plans will cost money, which is why I’ve laid out how I’ll pay for every dime – by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens that don’t help
- just when exactly did the president get the line item veto?
John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war.
- Insulting in the extreme for mischaracterizing McCain’s position.
What the nay-sayers don’t understand is that this election has never been about me. It’s been about you.
- then why isn’t Biden on any of the political gear available from his official campaign store a WEEK after he was selected. Palin was on McCain’s the moment she was announced. Why, on the graphics that to appear, is Biden’s name smaller and in a subdued color as to almost fade into the background?
