McCain Calls People Making Making Under 80,000/year, “Stupid”
By Daniel Miessler on August 17th, 2008: Tagged as Obama | Politics
It makes me militantly sad that there middle-class “Republicans” out there who are going to vote for McCain so they can avoid being over-taxed by Obama. It’s not true. But McCain doesn’t have to worry about things being “true”. He relies on the fact that modern Republicans tend not to research things. They’re voting for McCain because he’s Republican. Period.
And McCain knows this. He knows he can give his middle-class Republican base less of a tax break than Obama and still be considered by those very same people to have a better tax plan. Why? Because he thinks they’re stupid. Don’t believe me?
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Last Friday at a private dinner (you know, the ones that cost two weeks of a middle-class salary to attend) he reportedly said the following while discussing disproportionate tax breaks:
People who make under $80,000 are too stupid to understand taxes anyway.
John McCain said that, to a room full of rich people. On August 8th. Of 2008.
Nevermind the fact that Obama would be in Gitmo within 45 minutes if he said anything remotely similar—that’s not important. What is important is that McCain claims to be the low taxes guy. But he isn’t. Not for regular people. His tax improvements for the bottom three tax brackets are comedic in nature: .7%, .5%, and .2% respectively.
In short, he intends to lower taxes for those who are already über-rich, i.e., for people like him. He will in fact be implementing a tax system that grants himself an additional $269,364 per year.
And that’s fine. I don’t mind him being for the rich. I like money too. What I mind is regular, everyday people who are going to vote for McCain because they think Obama will tax the middle class to death.
In fact, if you make less than $111,645 a year you’ll get more money under Obama’s plan than McCain’s.
Ah, but what does that matter? Even if Obama says he’s going to give more money to those making less that $112K/year, it doesn’t mean he’ll do it, right? I mean, doesn’t the Koran allow Muslims to lie to Christians?
[ Update: For those of you doubting that John McCain would say such a stupid thing, consider that he's on video, at a similar dinner, singing, "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran..." Considering his personality this quote is highly believable. ]
