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I'd like to dig a bit deeper into this linked article on John McCain, from Glen's posting yesterday.

John McCain would, in addition to suspending Federal fuel taxes for the summer and making sure college students can get student loans for this fall...

• Require more affluent people - couples making more than $160,000 - enrolled in Medicare to pay a higher premium for their prescription drugs than less-wealthy people.


• Raise the tax exemption for each dependent child from $3,500 to $7,000.


• Offer people the option of choosing a simpler tax system with two tax rates and a standard deduction instead of sticking with the current system.


• Suspend for one year all increases in discretionary spending for agencies other than those that cover the military and veterans while launching an expansive review of the effectiveness of federal programs.
  

"In so many ways, we need to make a clean break from the worst excesses of both political parties," McCain said, adding "somewhere along the way, too many Republicans in Congress became indistinguishable from the big-spending Democrats they used to oppose."

Mavericky. Buck the big spending spree that's led to crestfallen conservatives.

If John McCain can put forth cogent changeyness that will help our economic unsoundness, and do so by not raising taxes (the Democrat's solution) then he might attract some still-standoffish conservative Republicans, many of whom are still in a 'vote-against' stance right now. A proposal for turning away from this current Bush and Democrat-friendly spending spree and getting back to the 'Contract with America' days (when Republicans first grabbed the House away from those pork-inflated taxaolot jackasses) then Conservatives will truly get on board his campaign. That, and the correct VP choice, of course.

McCain, on Hillary and Baracky...

"Both promise big 'change.' And a trillion dollars in new taxes over the next decade would certainly fit that description," McCain said. Playing on the title of an Obama book, McCain added: "All these tax increases are the fine print under the slogan of 'hope:' They're going to raise your taxes by thousands of dollars per year - and they have the audacity to hope you don't mind."

Raising taxes...an assurance you get with Democrats. Higher and higher taxes, and more and more socialist spending, without letup and irregardless of the economic situation.

As for the reduction in Gasoline taxes, I know I've posted comments on threads discussing the then-new idea of 'economic stimulus checks' that suggested gasoline tax reduction as a more viable 'stimulus'. Reducing a burdensome tax...don't think that seeing gas prices drop some 20-30 cents per gallon wouldn't do wonders for people's psyche.

(As an aside, note the unflattering AP photo the MyWay azzholes posted with that article.



Akin to posting Hillary's pic with her mouth full of substance, I suppose...)

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