Barack Obama not only wants to raise income and capital gains taxes, he wants to raise energy taxes.
Barack Obama Called For Tax Hikes On "Dirty Energy" Such As Coal And Natural Gas. Obama: "What we ought to tax is dirty energy, like coal and, to a lesser extent, natural gas." ("Q&A With Sen. Barack Obama," San Antonio Express-News, 2/19/08)
Meanwhile, and I brought this up in a McCain campaign teleconference about energy yesterday, Obama made a promise to southern Illinois in 2004, as Jim Muir reported a year later in the Southern Illinoisan.
As The Candidate you will remember the many times Obama traipsed through Southern Illinois in his bid to become a U.S. senator. In fact, I remember last April when The Candidate Obama, accompanied by The Elected Official Dick Durbin, visited the Southern Illinois University Coal Research Park in Carterville and made promise after promise about his commitment to help Southern Illinois residents secure jobs by doing all he could to revive the dying coal industry.
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Somehow I'm going to venture a guess that the Ruberry family would actually realize a tax cut under the Obama plan... I know our family will.
And if more energy is derived from wind, solar and other renewable future platforms, you won't need to worry so much about a carbon tax that even many conservatives and libertarians are ok with.
What was the last one? Capital gains? The McCain crowd doesn't seem to like Paris Hilton that much as it is... The recent spate of conservative cuts in this area (aka, the Paris Hilton Tax Cuts) haven't done squat to "stimulate" the economy, which was their ostensible raison d'etre. But, the loss of the tax investments has dealt a huge hole in our budget, meaning less money to pay for that $10billion a month we're sinking into Iraq's national treasury and "paying for" through debts to China and Saudi Arabia.
...We already have stagnating and lower-paying jobs under the Bushonomics that McCain wants to continue (since he admits he doesn't know much about economics anyway). Seems to be about time to balance the tax codes that the conservatives have thrown out of whack over the past 8 years in order to stimulate our moribund economy.
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