Kee-rist! Is this getting sickening, or what?
John McCain, who has no idea how many houses he owns; who owns a shitload of cars; who has failed to even mention the middle class on the stump or in countless debates over the last year and a half; and who has all sorts of plans to give the filthy rich (himself) even more tax cuts if he gets elected, while saddling the middle class with more taxes on their health care benefit, thus rendering such health care benefit prohibitively expensive for many in the middle class and small businesses; has suddenly decided he's a "man of the people."
First, it was Joe the Plumber, whose name apparently isn't necessarily "Joe," and who can't actually legally call himself a plumber, at least when he's looking for work as a plumber, who wanted to buy a really nice business, but was afraid Obama might raise his taxes by as much as $900 per year on a dream net profit of $280,000. The fact that he claimed to be "undecided" and an "independent," even though he turns out to have been a Republican plant, didn't do much for his credibility with most people, either.
Apparently, Joe wasn't fraudulent enough of an image for Sen. McCain, because now he's using "Joe" (Sam) as an indication of his status as a guardian of the middle class. Of course, he can't do that without lying:
"If I'm elected president, I won't raise taxes on small businesses, as Sen. (Barack) Obama proposes, and force them to cut jobs," McCain said of his Democratic opponent during a rally at the convention center. "I will keep small business taxes where they are, help them keep their costs low and let them spend their earnings to create more jobs, not send to Washington."
Okay, in the three debates between these two, how many times did he try this lie, only to be slapped down by Obama? Obama's plan does not raise taxes on any small business, unless you call a "small business" one in which a sole proprietor clears well over $250,000 per year. And even then, the tax rate will go from the current 36% to 39%, only on the amount OVER $250,000. That means, if he makes half a million, his total tax increase will be a whopping $7500. Not exactly a debilitating increase.
Of course, later the same day, he took a slightly different tack:
"Sen. Obama is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie than he is growing the pie," McCain told a crowd of several thousand.
This from a guy who represents a political party that has spent the last thirty years demonizing the poor, and handing the rich shitloads of tax breaks, while forcing the poor to pay a greater percentage of their income in taxes? Essentially, the poor and working classes are paying more of their money into a tax system that benefits the wealthy overwhelmingly. Talk about your reverse Robin Hood situations...
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