thinkprogress.org - 10/25/2008
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At an October 2000 town hall on MSNBC’s Hardball, an audience member asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) about why the rich pay higher taxes than the middle class. McCain defended progressive taxation, stating, “I think it’s to some degree because we feel, obviously, that wealthy ...
article.nationalreview.com - 10/28/2008
realclearpolitics.com - 10/24/2008
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realclearpolitics.com —
WASHINGTON -- Contrarian that I am, I'm voting
for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the...
polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama ...
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McCain for President
talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/26/2008
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talkingpointsmemo.com —
It is time for the McCain campaign to
come clean about what role any of its staffers...
may have had in hyping or pushing the press to hype the charges stemming from Ashley Todd's vicious and reprehensible hoax. As Greg Sargent reported yesterday, ...
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Time for Answers
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Palin: Obama's Tax Plans Could Mean Nightmare Communist State
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... That yarn goes well beyond what Palin and McCain have, to this point, been comfortable asserting: mainly that Obama is proposing economic socialism. But there are a few things to keep in mind here: the McCain-Palin ticket does not oppose a progressive tax system. In fact, back in 2000, the Arizona Republican said rich people paid more in taxes because they could afford to do so. ...
Palin: Obama's Tax Plans Could Mean Nightmare Communist State
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... That yarn goes well beyond what Palin and McCain have, to this point, been comfortable asserting: mainly that Obama is proposing economic socialism. But there are a few things to keep in mind here: the McCain-Palin ticket does not oppose a progressive tax system. In fact, back in 2000, the Arizona Republican said rich people paid more in taxes because they could afford to do so. ...
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