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Michael Medved, McCain, & Taxes

Every time I hear Michael Medved he says something that is not true.

He just said that “John McCain has never voted to raise taxes, in his 25 years in the Senate”. What Michael meant is McCain never introduced an ear mark for “pork” spending.

Does anyone know what percentage “pork” spending makes of the federal government? I know we all hate pork. It is very stupid, and we need to fix it. That is why we need the line-item veto. But, if I hear McCain mention the bridge to no-where 1 more time I am going to puke. We could build millions of bridges to no-were and it would not equal the budget problems we are going to have with entitlement spending.

Medved lies every time I listen to him. He never retracts the inaccurate stupid things that he says. I can not stand him any more.

They typically don’t say that senators “raise” taxes or “lower” taxes. All senators do is vote for or against different spending bills. But yes McCain has voted for a lot more spending, not to mention the new carbon tax that he wants, and social security taxes that he has supported. But what really ticks me off about Medved is the way that he lies and misrepresents the truth. Medved keeps talking about McCain’s “American’s for Tax Reform” score. Well as they say, the devil is in the detail.

# From 1994 through 1997, McCain scored a perfect 100 in each year representing a Reagan-type approach to taxpayer issues.
# From 1998-2002 McCain’s average rating was just 66 percent.

So in 1994 he was good on taxes. But in 2002 he ended a period of time that the “American’s for Tax Reform” gave him a 66%. So he is getting worse over time!

# In 2001 McCain scored just 55 percent and in 2002 he scored 60 percent!
# n 2003 he scored an 85 percent but the votes he was scored against were related the 2003 tax cut – arguably the most important taxpayer vote since the 1993 Clinton tax increase.
# Out of favor with the Republican base, McCain has slowly tried to reinvent himself as a taxpayer friendly Senator and has scored a 90 percent in the past two years.

McCain voted no on 6 tax cuts including the two big votes - final passage of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.

McCain voted yes on 3 tax cuts including 2 which received near unanimous support in the Senate and were relatively non controversial.

So, lets see, he voted for 3 small tax cuts and against 6 big tax cuts, but according to Medved McCain is the most conservative guy in the race.

# McCain does not support permanent repeal of the estate tax, a major goal of the taxpayer movement.
# McCain has told reporters “off the record” that he would raise taxes if elected President

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For more go here and here.

But the real question is who is going to cut spending and cut taxes: someone who has been in Washington for 25 years teaming up with Ted Kennedy and more often than the republican party, or someone who has been fixing budgets, and bottom lines by cutting fat, reducing duplication, and finding efficiencies his entire life?

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