"Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase."

[skipos]

"Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. And my opponent can't make that pledge, and here's why. For the first time in American history, John McCain wants to tax your health-care benefits. Apparently, Senator McCain doesn't think it's enough that health care premiums have doubled, he thinks that you should have to pay taxes on them, too. That's a $3.6 trillion tax increase potentially on middle-class families. And that would eventually leave tens of millions of you paying higher taxes or losing your benefits. That's his idea of change." - Barack Obama, Sept 12, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aa4ipe4fhU&eurl=http://dailykos.com/

This is much better than saying "I will only raise taxes on the top 1%." As far as I can tell, 50% of America thinks they are in the top 1%.

[quiet.american]

1. K&R nt

[iceman66]

2. He needs to put this on a commercial!

ASAP!!!

[FreakinDJ]

9. My thoughts exactly

The guy is a terrorist towards the middle class

[soothsayer]

3. Of course, local and state taxes could go up

[iceman66]

4. Local and state taxes . . .

have gone up a lot in the last 7 years because of the loss of federal revenue from Bush's tax cuts and war spending.

That is something else that Obama should be pointing out.

[AZBlue]

5. They should make that an ad!

[iceman66]

6. I've been saying this for days!

I think this could be a real winning issue, and in that clip he lays it all out so nicely!

[silverweb]

7. Crystal clear.

This is the kind of language and imagery that real people can grasp immediately and KNOW how it affects them directly.


GObama!

[FlyingSquirrel]

8. Holy crap, insult to injury! This is really gonna hit hard.

It needs to be pounded and pounded and pounded on.

[eshfemme]

10. They need to use this to push back on the lie McCain's been putting out there

Too many people still believe that Obama's gonna raise their taxes.

[anonymous171]

11. Stop using numbers. Just say "No hard working American will get any tax hikes under my plan"

[Muttocracy]

12. you're right, way too many people think they're upper-middle-class. nt

[FreakinDJ]

13. New England Journal of Medicine agrees with Obama

Source : The New England Journal of Medicine

McCain and Obama Plans for U.S. Health Care Reform

Its centerpiece is a change in the tax treatment of health insurance. Currently, workers do not pay taxes on health insurance premiums paid by their employers.

Nobody knows how effective repealing the tax exclusion would be in controlling costs, but if it turns out not to be a magic bullet, the plan lacks other mechanisms for reliably slowing spending. Prevention, better care for chronic conditions, and enhanced competition represent aspirations rather than concrete policies for controlling costs.

It would deregulate the insurance market (Geez - deregulation has worked out so well in the S&L, Banking and Mortgage markets)

The McCain plan could consequently trigger a move from comprehensive insurance toward thinner coverage policies that shift costs onto sicker patients. Moreover, some employers, particularly smaller businesses, might stop offering insurance if the tax benefits of employer-sponsored insurance were eliminated. As a result, some currently insured workers could lose coverage.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/8/781

[johnaries]

14. Better: Who is McCain talking to?

McCain keeps saying "Obama will raise YOUR taxes". But Obama's plan will actually cut taxes for everyone making less than $250k a year. So, who is McCain talking to? He's obviously NOT talking to 80% of Americans. He's not talking to me. I guess he only cares about people who own 10 homes or more.

[skipos]

15. kick

[senseandsensibility]

16. kick

The top one percent thing isn't penetrating. Low information voters don't even know what that means.

[iceman66]

17. K&R

Can't recommend this one enough.

[msallied]

18. You can bet this will be a point raised in the debates.