A taxpayer voting Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders

If he was planning to balance the budget by raising taxes, there might be some positives. Except he is NOT going to balance the budget, and he is going to raise my taxes.

 

What about the Carter years? Try paying a mortgage at 16% interest. How about double digit inflation rates?

 

And now we're nearly in the same place.

And guess what the culprit was then as it is today? Foreign dependence on oil.

 

Neither will McCain, and not only that, McCain will accept tax cuts for the rich that he was against before. Tax cuts that Warren Buffet and other rich people said was a terrible idea.

So Obama would just undo that damage and cut taxes for those who it might actually benefit. That's why McCain can't go after Obama on taxes.

 

I don't think the problem lasted 8-10 years though. We've been through a lot of rough patches - the problem is that Bush will have managed to go about 10 years (if bigtexxx is right that 2010 will still be slow) where the majority of the country never felt much of the economic growth, despite GDP growing. And a big reduction of taxesthat was supposed to spur the economy led to a predictable deficit - debt accumulated by everyone - and no sustained economic growth or results for the average American (flat real wages, more hours worked, etc).

 

apparently this mcdowell fella is a giant p*ssy.

 

on the story, we all know the Golden Triangle is a hotbed of racial harmony

 

To be fair, Bush's economic policy didn't really take effect until 02/03 (when his tax cuts happened). By that time, 9/11, tech bubble had already happened. The economy did recover after that, say what you want about the housing boom, but most of the middle-class Americans enjoyed benefits of the increased value of their homes.

Oh and Obama isn't planing to balance the budget.

 

I don't think anyone is disputing that, but this particular instance doesn't seem racially motivated.

 

Not even close, interest/inflation rates are all much lower now.

And foreign oil dependence is just a big myth. We buy oil on the world market, and we buy/sell oil related products to most of the countries in the world. There is NO such thing as oil independence even if we produce a lot more here in US.

 

but to the accusation of the guy being a p***y, if I lived in the golden triangle i would be suspicious. at the very least keep business and politics separate, not everyone of your customers is going to agree with your political views.

 

When you are spending over a trillion each year and it will grow under President Obama and you already are over your head in debt-

Taxes become meaningless. There is no need to even think about taxes when you spend more than 1 trillion annually. All the taxes collected barely cover the interest on the debt.

Why have any taxes at all if we are going to keep borrowing the money we spend.


I'll vote for the first politician that stops borrowing money.

 

Actually the guy is a woman. (does that mean she is being a d##k? ). Anyway, folks shouldn't mix politics and their business, but it is his business and he will reap the rewards or pay the penalty.

 

A middle class taxpayer who votes for the GOP, receives a few hundred bucks in tax cuts, while their kids public college tuition goes up thousands, their health care premiums and co-pays go up greatly and they have to drive on toll roads to work is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

On the other hand while aided by their vastly larger tax cuts, the John McCain types buy their 10th house and bid up the price of coastal real estate or oil futures. It supposedly trickles down to the middle class.

 

I don't really get this. Is he saying that since a lot of African-Americans voted for Obama that means he is saying they are chickens? Aren't African-American voters taxpayers too?