John McCain may have purposefully married into a big, beer-funded family to get rich, but that has no bearing on the fact that he can not understand what it is like to be poor, let alone be in touch with them now. Even more so, he has no right to say that Barack Obama is insensitive to poor people and especially for the petty little reason he tries to claim ground on.
From The Huffington Post:
"I noticed again today that Sen. Obama repeated his opposition to giving low-income Americans a tax break, a little bit of relief so they can travel a little further and a little longer, and maybe have a little bit of money left over to enjoy some other things in their lives," McCain said. "Obviously Sen. Obama does not understand that this would be a nice thing for Americans, and the special interests should not be dictating this policy."
The Arizona senator deflected questions about his record on the Bush administration's tax cuts _ he initially opposed them but now supports extending them _ by again criticizing Obama.
"Sen. Obama wants to raise the capital gains tax, which would have a direct effect on 100 million Americans," McCain said. "That means he has no understanding of the economy and that he is totally insensitive to the hopes and dreams and ambitions of 100 million Americans who will be affected by his almost doubling of the capital gains tax."
That little tax break would freeze the federal gas tax, which would lighten the load by 18.5 cents...initially. That money goes towards fixing our highways and finding transportation solutions that our nation so desperately needs. The real problem with gas prices is much deeper than cutting that tax. Gas prices could easily go up that much in a few weeks time, so our next President must cut our demand for gasoline and use alternate fuels to keep us going in the 21st century. As for that capital gains tax, the people that see real differences from the cut are nowhere near poor and honestly, that whole thing about reducing the capital gains tax to stimulate growth is a crock of shit.
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