rawstory.com — Senator John McCain has been attempting to appeal to voters lately by attacking Barack Obama over his plans to reduce taxes for the middle class while increasing them on the wealthiest Americans. Political analyst David Gergen believes the Democrats ought to fight back harder than they have against these claims that Obama is a "socialist."
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Closed AccountOct 28, 2008
socialist palin better shut up. :)~you introduced progressive taxation in alaskaand raised the overall average by 33% ever since.
mrgreen371Oct 28, 2008
However, Gergen added that "more importantly, I don't think the Democrats have really answered it appropriately." I agree on this, they aren't doing too much to disprove it. Telling people they plan to cut taxes for 95% of the people just isn't doing it.The polls are getting tighter and I am getting worried at this point.
08sosoOct 29, 2008
One minor complaint - the EIC was actually started in 1975 by Richard Nixon (R) and expanded by RR.
johnnr2Oct 29, 2008
FTA:Gergen suggested that the Democrats should invoke the example of Teddy Roosevelt, who was both a Republican and one of the greatest advocates of progressive taxation in the years immediately preceding the enactment of the current income tax.Gergen also noted that the Reagan administration was responsible for enacting the Earned Income Tax Credit, an extremely successful redistribution program which returns money to the working poor."Sometimes they get so carried away that they don't realize the realities of what we've been going through," Gergen added. Apparently referring to McCain's promises to "create more wealth," he explained that "the wealth over the last 30 years has been redistributed -- it's been redistributed upwards. As we grow, the top one percent's getting a disproportionate share."