Published 9/16/2008
by Mark Murray
at First Read
From NBC/NJ's Matthew E. Berger VIENNA, Ohio -- Palin accused Obama of supporting tax increases that would “equate to billions and billions of dollars taken from you,” and said Democrats would need even more tax increases to support their proposals.
“His tax plans really would kill jobs and hurt small businesses and make even today's bad economy look like the good old days,” Palin said at a joint rally with McCain at an airplane hangar. (Obama's tax plan, however, raises taxes only on families who make more than $250,000 per year, and it gives larger tax cuts than McCain's plan does to those who make less than that amount.)
Palin said McCain would help put the economy “back on track” by helping small business owners so they can expand and create more jobs, as well as reform the banking industry that has had a serious of bankruptcies and purchases in recent days.
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