McCain Says No New Taxes

[Terri]

By AP STAFF
Associated Press
February 18, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican John McCain says there will be no new taxes during his administration if he is elected president.

''No new taxes,'' the likely GOP presidential nominee said during a taped interview broadcast Sunday.

McCain told ABC's ''This Week'' that under no circumstances would he increase taxes, and added that he could ''see an argument, if our economy continues to deteriorate, for lower interest rates, lower tax rates, and certainly decreasing corporate tax rates,'' as well as giving people the ability to write off depreciation and eliminating the alternative minimum tax.

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[vivalamigra]

Gee, no new taxes? How on Earth is J. McAmnesty planning to pay the BILLIONS that the amnestied illegals are going to eat up?

Spending restraint? $2,000,000,000 a WEEK going into the Iraq RAT HOLE for the next "hundred years?" Yeah, that'll work!

[jackbenimble]

Beyond the $2.6 billion cost of his shamnesty, how does McCain plan to replace the tax revenues that will be lost when his McCain-Lieberman Bill wreaks ruinous impacts on our economy and business profits?

I'm totally in favor of no new taxes but what I really want is some responsibility. Our government needs to quit spending money it doesn't have.

Why are politicians so stupid? They think that because the government prints money it is the same as creating wealth.

Regards,
Jack

[Suomi]

"The leading contender for his party's presidential nomination, McCain blamed out-of-control spending for a lack of enthusiasm among Republican voters."

Most so called fiscal conservatives forget this other part of the equation. They invest in bridges to nowhere, no child left behind ( aka the school administrator pay increase act) and other boondoggles. It is time for all conservatives to unite behind John McCain.

[Paulmarkar]

Hey John you forgot the "Read My Lips" part.

[ReaganGOP]

No new taxes, eh? I seem to recall another presidential candidate making the same promise in 1989 and got his clock cleaned by a smooth-talking Arkansan good ole boy. What we have here is a repeat of the 1996 Clinton-Dole contest. The only difference then was that Senator Dole WAS a conservative. This year, not a dime's bit of difference exists between the two party candidates, especially after the Romney sell-out. This Reagan conservative, however, won't be staying home on Election Day. A write-in is looking as the only alternative.

[kmenzies]

It stuns me that he would use the exact phrase "no new taxes" with all the memories that is sure to invoke. It's as if he actually wants conservatives to stay home in November. Is he incompetent? Is he inept? Is he clumsy? What exactly is he? So far, even after getting the nomination all but wrapped up officially he still struggles to cross the 50% mark amongst Republicans. His nomination appears to be a fluke of conspiring pluralities and sadly it's looks like he intends to do nothing about it. I am bracing for the worst in November, while still holding out hope that he is at least politically smart enough to do something about this. Come on John, I am actually cheering you on, do something!

[cgretired]

I will believe this when I see it.. if I see it.

And of course, it's the same old thing with the democrats. The Bush Tax Cuts saved us from what was inevitible at that time, and will continue to do so.

Personally, I wish the Republicans would come up with a do-able proposal to eliminate the existing tax codes in favor of some sort of flat tax/federal sales tax, or something to get rid of the tax codes the way they are now. Burdensome is putting it mild.

However, McCain doesn't say a thing other than his pseudo "read my lips" comments.

It just doesn't do it for me.

CGRetired

[lpara]

It just doesn't do it for me.

Me either. It's just really hard to put confidence in anything he says.

[Joninokc007]

Discussions of whether the conservatives are de-energized or whether Senator McCain will stop tax increases may be totally non-relevant, because 2006 was NOT lost by a fit of pique by surly Republicans, but by a total shift of votes by Arabs and Hispanics to the Democrats.

The media is trying to sell us that the conservative movement is dead, or so angry that they will not show up, but the fact is that it may be that our energizing or apathy is USELESS, because Clinton from 1992 to 2000 brought in 6 to 8 million Hispanics, so we were then matched EXACTLY by Democrats, and Bush, from 2000 to 2006, allowed so many new Arab and Hispanic citizens, and ignored the illegal voting for so long that we are OUTNUMBERED.

I do not know if the Democrats will use their new voting majority to load us into boxcars, and do the old final solution on us, or try to re-educate us in their shiney new camps, so we will think right, or just shut us up with the fairness doctrine.

I do know that we ARE a minority and have little or no say in the matter.

Bush is smiling since his plan is perfect and the Republican Party is finally free of those nasty old conservatives, and can disappear into oblivion like the Whig Party, with their golden parachutes provided by the corporations who arranged this political suicide.