WATCH: McCain Dances With The Far-Right And The Super-Rich On Economic Policy
WATCH: McCain Dances With The Far-Right And The Super-Rich On Economic Policy
When it comes to taxes and the economy, John McCain has got his dancing shoes on.
In the early 2000s, John McCain eschewed his reputation as a radical tax cutter by opposing the Bush tax cuts because they “came at the expense of middle class Americans.”
But now he’s waltzed all the way back to the far right, proposing not only to extend the Bush tax cuts, but double them by giving away another $300 billion in budget-busting tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy while leaving out 100 million Americans.
In the last month, he’s made overtures to the middle class, promising mortgage relief and a new set of tax cuts for the middle class. But when the details were revealed, they turned out to be just more giveaways to corporations and the wealthy.
Watch him go:
Dancing shoes? Maybe he’ll just add taps to his $520 loafers.
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CNBC is pushing McCain/Palin for its investor class viewers. I’m not sure what they want the common citizen, interested in business news, to do.
I envisioned a stock market scenario, a positive/stable week, riding into the election. So far, that is happening. Tuesday the market rose 889 points. It remained stable since with more moves to the up side.
It looks like the investor class may ensure a temporary balm in the stock exchanges. How this impacts the election, remains to be seen.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:53 amOne CNBC talking head just talked about an Obama win inspired stock market crash. Typical…the big money boys and their oily counterparts are pulling out the stops for McCain.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:14 pmAnd just like a real White Guy…no smooth moves…junk a bunch of herky jerk stuff.
Look, the flat earth society approach to American society, it’s values, it’s economy, etc. is all fun to watch, as a recreational pursuit, but the REAL AMERICAN train left the station long ago. The media better catch on quick or risk losing all credibility (and advertising revenues) by wasting their resources giving face time to this drivel.
February 15th, 2009 at 12:56 pm