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factcheck.org - 10/20/2008

Obama's "Welfare"

— factcheck.org — McCain calls Obama's refundable tax credits "welfare," but calls his own "reform."... (more) Obama's "Welfare"

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patterico.com - 10/13/2008

Obama’s Tax Plan and Small Businesses

— patterico.com — [Guest post by DRJ] At tonight’s Town Hall Presidential debate, I think Barack Obama said this about... his tax policies: “Only a few percent of small businesses make more than $250,000 so the majority of businesses will get a tax ... (more) Obama’s Tax Plan and Small Businesses

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washingtonmonthly.com - 10/18/2008

McCain: Middle-class tax cut is 'welfare'

— washingtonmonthly.com — MCCAIN: MIDDLE-CLASS TAX CUT IS 'WELFARE'.... And here I thought John McCain couldn't slip further from reality... on economic matters. I stand corrected. Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Saturday accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of ... (more) McCain: Middle-class tax cut is 'welfare'

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Has the WSJ Endorsed?
protein wisdom — ... Only recently, Democrats tried and failed to stuff an “affordable housing” provision into the $700 billion bank rescue package that would have let politicians give even more to Acorn. All this money gives Acorn the ability to pursue its other great hobby: electing liberals. Acorn is spending $16 million this year to register new Democrats and is already boasting it has put 1.3 million new voters on the rolls. The big question is how many of these registrations are real. On Obama’s “tax cuts” for 95% of the American electorate: Moreover, the tax credits would mostly go to those ...

Tonight's Debate and Enough With Mr. Nice Senator
Weekly Standard Blog — ... 2) Sen. Obama's tax cut? Yeah, that's welfare. He would take money from people who do pay taxes to give it to those who pay no income tax, and he has very cleverly renamed that a "tax cut." Here's the thing, Sen. Obama: You can't give a tax cut to 95 percent of Americans when 40 percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all. The money that Obama will call a tax cut when he gives it to someone else is more accurately known to you hard-working folks out there as "Tuesday's paycheck" or "the four dinners I would have taken my wife to" or "the little pink bike I ...

Palin The Wealth Spreader: Gov. Imposed Oil Windfall Profits Tax To Allow Alaskans To ‘Share In The Wealth’
Think Progress — ... that the Obama tax plan “discourages productivity,” will “punish hardwork,” and will “stifle the entrepreneurial spirit.” Watch a compilation of Palin’s recent comments about the Obama tax plan: Conservatives in the media have echoed Palin’s sentiments, insinuating that Obama is a “Marxist” and referring to his tax plan as “welfare.” But Palin’s criticisms of Obama’s “spread the wealth” ...

I.O.U.S.A. online
PoliPundit.com — ... . It’s a balanced, non-partisan, factual discussion of the debt mess we’re in. It’s scary. And the figures it uses are before we threw a trillion dollars down the Wall Street rathole, and before the coming serial consumer stimuli and mortgage bailouts and before Obama’s new Welfare for the Masses program. -- ...