80% of taxpayers would pay higher taxes under McCain than under Obama. 95% of all families would get a tax cut under Obama. People do not realize these facts. In fact, most people think they would pay more taxes under Obama than McCain. This wrong. McCain lied about it during his speech at the RNC.
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http://ObamaTaxCut.com
The ObamaTaxCut.com site lets people enter their income, their marital status, and number of kids. It then spits out an estimate of how much more of a tax cut they would get with Barack's tax plan than with McCain's. This is not a site I created, but I think it's pretty damn cool, and could be a powerful tool to push back against McCain's lies.
Could the campaign come up with their own calculator website (or have it on the main site, or link to it), and put it up on ads and mention it during speeches? This way, voters can see for themselves how much better Obama is for their pocketbook than McCain.
They could even have people enter their state, and the calculator spit out the estimate not only in dollars, but in the how many tanks of gas (adjusted by the Lundberg survey for that day and state) worth the difference would be. Or how many Big Macs. Or something like that.
I've posted this before, but I think it's important enough to do so again. I hope the campaign picks up on this. I think if people find out how much they personally will save w/ Barack, they may be more willing to vote for him.