Whose tax plan will save you more money?

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     Obama's plan would save me money. Nevertheless, I agree with fezzy that I don't vote for candidates in order to save money. The Georgian conflict saw any chance of me ever supporting Obama go right out the window. Sorry to go off track like that.

That conflict is Obama's fault?

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     Obama's plan would save me money. Nevertheless, I agree with fezzy that I don't vote for candidates in order to save money. The Georgian conflict saw any chance of me ever supporting Obama go right out the window. Sorry to go off track like that.

That conflict is Obama's fault?

     What I said was half-hyperbolic. My point is that I was disappointed by Obama merely calling for a ceasefire. I found Russia bullying Georgia to be despicable, & I was happy that McCain condemned Russia for that. I'm usually not one to care for words, but that makes me wonder if Obama actually understood what was happening or if he just rattled off a standard anti-conflict statement.

Putin is an authoritarian bastard, but it should be reminded that Georgia decided that opening day of the Olympics was a good day to invade South Ossetia, and that we like Georgia because of their oil pipeline.

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Damn, the people on this forum tend to be skewed to the wealthy side. $110k a year is around 90th percentile for a family income.

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If you go by that wrong chart Obama but in reality McCain's plan doesn't raise taxes so him over Obama which will be huge tax increases on people making over $42,000 (and that number could be lower, can't exactly remember).

Obama isn't raising taxes on anyone making under $200,000 or $250,000 for a family. Only way a tax increase could affect lower income families is if he actually goes through with the windfall profits tax.

Well to be fair to MasterJedi, he can't remember the number that the McCain campaign made up.

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When you rely on the lower and middle class to pay the brunt of hte taxes, like the current system, those said classes get angry and bitter and start pushing for lower taxes at all costs.  If the tax system is fair, people feel a lot better about it.

This is nothing but a myth. The wealthy already pay most of tax revenue, and they always have.
In the fiscal year 2006, the latest data is available from, the top 1%, aka those making more than $388,806 paid 39.89% of all income tax revenue. The top 10%, those making above $108,904, paid 70.79%. The top 50% paid almost all income tax revenue, at 97.01%. Any suggestion that the 'lower and middle classes' pay the brunt of taxes is delusion at best, and deception at worst.

Let me guess, they look only at federal income taxes and ignore other federal taxes and all state and local taxes?

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There are sure a lot of kids with rich parents on this forum. Of course, we're in a Bush economy, so me and almost everyone I know will save more money with Obama. I'm such an elitist liberal.