Where John McCain stands on real issues:
TAXES
Make It Harder To Raise Taxes: John McCain believes it should require a 3/5 majority vote in Congress to raise taxes.
Read that again incase your eyes missed it...
require a 3/5 majority vote in Congress to raise taxes.
That would forever harm and potentially destroy any hope of a Progressive agenda for upwards of 30-50 years, Period. It's the crazies Idea I've ever heard, seriously, this idea is SICK as it blocks any hope for necessary future tax increases where needed and closes the door forever on generation of revenue through taxing those who have the most to give. IF for no other reason, I would vote for Satan herself to keep this policy off our books.
TAX RELIEF FOR MIDDLE AMERICA
Cut Taxes For Middle Class Families: Hard-working American families need lower taxes. John McCain will permanently repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) -- a tax that will be paid nearly exclusively by 25 million middle class families. John McCain will repeal this onerous tax, saving middle class families nearly $60 billion in a single year. Under McCain's plan, a middle class family with children set to pay the AMT will save an average of over $2,700 -- a real tax cut for working families.
AMT Tax Cuts is NOT aimed at Middle America, it's aimed at upper income borderling Middle/Upper Income folks... this is a fucking aweful idea
HEALTHCARE "PLAN"
Allow individuals to get insurance through any organization or association that they choose: employers, individual purchases, churches, professional association, and so forth.
Huh??
Reform the tax code to eliminate the bias toward employer-sponsored health insurance, and provide all individuals with a $2,500 tax credit ($5,000 for families) to increase incentives for insurance coverage. Individuals owning innovative multi-year policies that cost less than the full credit can deposit remainder in expanded health savings accounts.
Talk about leaving the disadvantaged behind.
We must do more to take care of ourselves to prevent chronic diseases when possible, and do more to adhere to treatment after we are diagnosed with an illness.
This is a bad bad healthcare plan people... take care of yourself by using a tax credit, if you have a job that is, to buy insurance through Church, or maybe the Republican Party??? And what's the best idea yet in his healthcare joke?
Promote competition throughout the health care system - between providers and among alternative treatments.
This makes no sense... Medicine works (you're cured) or it doesn't (You die)... no inbetween. Competition is not something that works in Medicine, it's an oxymoron!
SOCIAL SECURITY
John McCain supports supplementing the current Social Security system with personal accounts -- but not as a substitute for addressing benefit promises that cannot be kept. John McCain will reach across the aisle, but if the Democrats do not act, he will.
King McCain? Is this a threat? What does this actually mean?
TRADE
John McCain believes that globalization is an opportunity for American workers today and in the future. Ninety-five percent of the world's customers lie outside our borders and we need to be at the table when the rules for access to those markets are written. To do so, the U.S. should engage in multilateral, regional and bilateral efforts to reduce barriers to trade, level the global playing field and build effective enforcement of global trading rules.
No Surprise There
ENVIRONMENT
I don't have much to comment on this other than pointing out that in the video on this page, he states
Ronald Reagan was an Environmentalist
I rest my case. I feel as if my hand could be forced, but no doubt about it, if Hillary steals the primary, i'll still be forced to vote for her. McCain would be a disaster for every American.
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