Health Plans Compared

McCain plans to tax employee health benefits as ordinary income.  It is generally agreed that this will lower and in some cases eliminate health benefits offered by employers.

Obama plans to offer the large, competitive pool of congressional health plans to all citizens.  This will offer more choice and flexibility to all.

Videos outlining both ideas are here.  One thing that the Tully, the commentator hyping up the McCain plan does not address is how cancer patients and others will be treated -- massive deregulation will result in people with pre-conditions going bankrupt as described in the Obama video.  Tully only focuses on how ordinary folks will get a few more dollars of take home pay while they are young and healthy by avoiding dermatology appointments and other "unnecessary" care.

Tax plans compared

Source : washington post

The word has not gone out: Obama's tax plan is much better for the majority of Americans! The vast majority of Americans make less than $111,000 per year, and for those folks, Obama gives a *bigger* tax cut.

Also largely unknown is that Seniors will pay *no income tax* on the first $50,000 under the Obama/Biden plan.

Click on the image above to see the figures in a larger font, or go to the source article at the Washington Post.

Lose your house, Lose your vote

A disconcerting new development reveals a potential loophole in voting regulations that can be exploited in critical swing states. Both Ohio and Michigan have huge amounts of foreclosures, and when people lose their homes, they lose their address and potentially their right to vote ... Reports show that Republicans may be teaming up with foreclosure tracking companies to actually target such distressed households and suppress their votes. That the Democrats disenfranchised the entire state of Florida and Michigan during their primary was very disappointing, but now these proposed Republican tactics are undermining the confidence of the electoral process. 2000, 2004, and now this ...

State-by-state list of homeless voters rights.

Tax Disclosures of the 2008 Presidential Candidates

2006 Tax Returns for all the candidates

Candidate	Total Income	Total Tax	Bracket
Barack and Michelle Obama	$991,296	$277,431	28.0%
Joe and Jill Biden	$248,459	$42,832	17.2%
Candidate	Total Income	Total Tax
John McCain	$358,414	$96,933	27.0%
Cindy McCain	$6,066,431	$1,730,952	28.5%
Sarah and Todd Palin	????	????

2008 Electoral College Scenarios -- Dead Heat

Here are two very possible dead heat scenarios (Obama 269, McCain 269). Both would likely result in an Obama victory because of Democratic control of Congress.

2004 results
+D Iowa, New Mexico, and Colorado
-D New Hampshire

aka Gore + Colorado


2004 Results
+D New Mexico, Iowa, Colorado, and Virginia
-D Michigan

Palin Spoof Videos

The presidential choice through a taxation prism

Source : washington post

So if your family makes less than $111,645 then Obama gives you the bigger break. If you make more, McCain's got your back. Only families making more than $603,403 will pay more under either candidate.

With the country approaching $10 trillion in dept, only Obama has a plan that directly increases revenues. To do a full analysis would require factoring proposed plans from both candidates on spending and anticipated economic growth.

It is interesting that the McCain camp makes a blanket statement that Obama will increase *your* taxes. Who is McCain speaking to? Only the families that make more than $600k? Denial of the clear analysis of the public tax plans seems to play right into Obama's argument that McCain "doesn't get it", and that McCain actually believes his supposed joke that the middle class are families making under $5 million.