While I may not totally agree with the extra taxes on the rich, he’s not stating government can fix everything. He’s asking Americans to get more involved in their own lives. I don’t hear McCain saying anything like that. He just states tax cuts solve everything and helps everyone. I still don’t see it.

Back to the point, please make sure your data is factual and accurate before you make a post.
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This budget has tax increases. Again, the chairman says it is only 2.6 percent. Well, 2.6 percent on $3 trillion is approximately $800 billion. What does it mean in real terms? Well, it means they are going to allow to expire the tax rates on capital gains, dividends, estate taxes, R&D credit, energy credit, tuition tax credit–on a whole series of items that benefit a lot of America.

The claim we hear from their national candidates on the Democratic side is that we are just going to tax the rich; we can pay for everything we want to do if we just tax the rich. If you take the top tax rate from the present level of about 35 percent up to the Clinton years’ level of 39.6 percent, you raise $25 billion year. You cannot pay for even 10 percent of what the Democratic party is planning to spend with $25 billion a year. They have $300 billion in this budget alone. Senator Obama has proposed another $300 billion of annual increases in spending. They are short hundreds of billions of dollars in tax revenue by taxing the rich. Where is that money going to come from? I will tell you where. It is obvious. It is going to come from hard-working middle-class American families. Our estimate is that this tax package is going to cost the average small business $4,100–small business, which is the backbone of American job creation. This budget is a direct attack on their capacity to create jobs with that type of a tax increase. This budget is going to cost the average senior in America–18 million seniors–$2,200 each. That is what this package is going to cost in tax increases to pay for the spending that is in the program.
My colleague on the other side of the aisle is fond of saying: We didn’t raise taxes last year; our budget is not going to raise them. This budget has built into it the expectation that taxes are going to go up by $1.2 trillion. And then they spend the money. They spend the money, so they have to raise the taxes. So they cannot claim it both ways, but they try to. That is why I call it the “fudge-it budget.”

Individuals in this country–43 million Americans–will have to pay $2,300 each to pay for this budget. That doesn’t count what Senator Obama and Senator Clinton are proposing on the campaign trail. As I said earlier, Obama has already proposed $300 billion of new spending every year. That is $1.2 trillion over the 5 years. That would double this figure, and it would mean American families would have to pay over $4,500 a year for all of the Obama plans for spending, which mirror Senator Clinton’s plan–I don’t want to just pick on Senator Obama uniquely. On top of this budget, you would have $2,300 plus $2,300, or $4,600 of new taxes on every family in America. Those are not rich families. It is every family who pays taxes of any significance, families who make more than $50,000, to put it into context. Individuals who make more than $30,000 will have to pay this tax. The irony is that we hear, as I mentioned, we are going to just tax the rich.

In this budget, they already assume that the tax rates on the wealthy are going to go from 35 percent to 39.6 percent in years 11 and 12. Then they spend that money. So when these proposals come forward from their national candidates that we are going to put another $300 billion on the books of new spending next year and we are going to get it from the rich–well, they have already taxed the rich. That is already assumed in here. Who will really pay for it? Working, average Americans and small businesses. Talk about stifling an economy. Nothing will stifle an economy more than that

You are an ignorant moron, you can;t even accept a cold unedited fact.

You are really dumb— you and kevin both…

moron!
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facts…from you jacka**…hardly!

is your IQ larger than your shoe size?

ExT

While I may not totally agree with the extra taxes on the rich, he’s not stating government can fix everything. He’s asking Americans to get more involved in their own lives. I don’t hear McCain saying anything like that. He just states tax cuts solve everything and helps everyone. I still don’t see it.

Back to the point, please make sure your data is factual and accurate before you make a post.

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Egypt and Jordan are both legitimate governments and don’t sponsor terrorism, they’re are immediate neighbours of Israel and peace must won between them. Unlike Syria and Iran. Iran in particular is arming and training extremists that are taking US lives in Iraq. There’s your difference. Bush was spot on.

McCain’s offering about Hamas is no different to when the PLO took over as the authority in Palestine or Shin Fein over the IRA in Ireland, once they became political powers, the dynamics changed. If Hamas because the only governmental authority with a political branch..then they must be addressed. At this point however…they’re terrorists.