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[AmSpec News Article Feed] Barack Obama and John McCain are now going toe-to-toe on economics. Obama's main challenge: to convince voters he is not a classic tax-and-spend liberal.
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[Blogs For John mccain's Victory] A Return to ”Its the Economy Stupid: The reform focuses on the real economic problems Americans face today and will face in the future. And it builds on the core economic principles that have made America great.”
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[Press Releases] NH GOP - NH Small Biz for McCain: “While John McCain's Jobs for America economic plan received endorsements from over 300 professional economists today (including Nobel Prize winners, business economists with experience in the private sector, policy economists with experience in government and academic economists from major universities and state and community colleges), Barack Obama's economic plan seems to be nothing more than raising taxes on middle class Americans - even those earning $32,000 per year."
[Factiva Alerts - Credit Card Firepsc1] Obama, McCain square off over economy: LOUIS (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama on Monday called for a second stimulus package to boost the ailing US economy, while Republican John McCain tried to paint his presidential rival as a tax-and-spend liberal in a battle over who .
[Roni Deutch Tax Center - Tax Help Blog] Recent Coverage of Presidential Candidates & the Economy: Barack Obama is trying to avoid two traps that have doomed previous Democrats: Being seen as a "tax-and-spend liberal" who is soft on national security. He's making progress on one trap, but not the other.
[Brendan Nyhan] How liberal is Obama on the economy?: Obama has apparently proposed a refundable tax credit for wage earners and the self-employed, which the Tax Policy Center "assume[s]" would be phased out on adjusted gross income beginning at $75,000. But that's not a cut in taxes for all people earning less than $75,000 a year, since some of us derive income from sources other than wages, such as pensions, interest, dividends, capital gains and withdrawals from Individual Retirement Accounts.
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[WSJ.com: Washington Wire - WSJ.com] Obama, McCain Spar Over Economy: Advisors said Obamas agenda would not increase the federal deficit and would be paid for by repealing tax cuts to the wealthiest of Americans, as well as funds that would become available when the war effort in Iraq is scaled down. McCain Senior Policy Advisor Doug Holtz-Eakin disputed that claim, countering that the agenda does not offer enough specifics to verify precisely how it will be paid for.
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[Blogs for mccain] A Reurn to ”Its the Economy Stupid: The McCain plan of keeping taxes low and reducing the corporate tax rate is a pro-growth strategy, while the Obama strategy of increased taxes and spending is a model that has been proven unsuccessful. The Carter administration offered similar tax and spend proposals that were unsuccessful that lead to the famous line, ‘It’s the Economy Stupid.’
[PLACER] Rep. John Campbell: Out-of-control Spending: That increase will push the deficit for 2009 to maybe $700 billion. Even a President Obama might find it hard to raise taxes enough to collect that much more money.
[The Opinion Blog] Is Obama to become America's new Gipper?: Also like Reagan, Obama holds the potential to use activists to reformulate this country's prevailing public philosophy. His campaign message of change has activated supporters across the country and this grass-roots support gives him political capital with which to seek alteration in the status quo.
[art's blog] Obama and McCain square off over economy (Reuters): Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama on Monday called for a second stimulus package to boost the ailing US economy, while Republican John McCain tried to paint his presidential rival as a tax-and-spend liberal in a battle over who can best .
[Roni Deutch Tax Center - Tax Help Blog] Recent Coverage of Presidential Tax Views: Barack Obama dismissed as old-style politics John McCain's and the Republican Party's warnings that he would be a tax-and-spend liberal. Most Americans, Sen.
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[Praful Kumar's Web Blog] Danger of US downturn ”has faded: “When it comes to the economy, John McCain and I have a fundamentally different vision of where to take the country, because for all of his talk about independence, the centrepiece of John McCain’s economic plan amounts to a full-throated endorsement of George Bush’s policies.
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