Well, make that one miss and one hit for McCain today. His "no new taxes" pledge is ill-advised, but I like his stand on farm subsidies. Campaigning in Wisconsin, both Clinton and Obama said they not only would continue a popula dairy-subsidy but could even seen expanding the payments. Not McCain:
At a time when Americans must work four months a year just to pay their taxes, John McCain cannot support farm policies that are too costly for the taxpayer, particularly when they also play a negative role in encouraging farmers to rely on government subsidies, " McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said of the dairy subsidy.
Good for him. McCain isn't well-versed on the economy in general, but at least he's strong on fiscal responsibility.
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There are a LOT of things I don't see "eye to eye" on with McCain, but his propensity to hack away at pork and subsidies is absolutely an upside for me.
Fiscally responsible? He hasn't indicated the least intention of stopping the hemorrhaging fiscal wound called the Iraq War. What's more, he apparently won't even be responsible enough to raise taxes to pay for the damn thing. So, we're going to borrow more money from the Chinese to dump in Iraq.
Red-ink Republicanism isn't fiscal responsibility. Its abdication of fiscal responsibility. Obviously, don't spend and don't tax is the goal where feasible. After that, I'll take "tax and spend" over "borrow and spend" any day.
McCain was quoted in 2000 as not supporting tax breaks for "the wealthy." Now he can't seem to remember ever saying that.
Straight talk express rolls on!
McCain isn't great on taxing-and-spending issues, just probably the best of the lot. The class-envy crap, which McCain still seems to believe no matter what he says, belongs on the other side. I doubt Clinton would try to pull us out of Iraq immediately, though Obama might.
I'm with Doug - I 'll take tax and spend over borrow and spend any day of the week, that is the ever so slightly more fical resposibility.
Besides the right have been total hypocrites on this issue anyway - claiming to be responsible when they had no intention of being so.
Until we stop spending insane amounts on foreign interventionism and reinvesting here at home first on our crumbling infrastructure I see no reason to be optimistic about ANY of the choices - especially the chief republicrit McCain
Borrowing more and more money from foreign governments makes us beholden to them - sapping our sovereignity. Look at all the influence when China threatened to dump their T bills in response to our complaining of their unsafe and poor quality products they dump here.
AJ....just curious. Would you rather borrow from foriegn countries or simply pay another 1/3 of your own income?
That's your choice in a nutshell.