Top McCain Adviser Blatantly Lies About Obama’s Tax Proposals: ‘He’s Not Proposed One Single Tax Cut

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/10/fiorina-obama-tax-cut/

Top McCain Adviser Blatantly Lies About Obama’s Tax Proposals: ‘He’s Not Proposed One Single Tax Cut’


On Fox News today, Carly Fiorina, who is a top economic adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), blatantly distorted Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) tax proposals. When Fox’s Martha MacCallum noted that Obama says he wants to “put money back in people’s pockets and give them tax cuts,” Fiorina claimed that Obama has “not proposed one single tax cut”:

FIORINA: Yes, but he’s not proposed one single tax cut. In fact, every program he’s proposed is a tax increase, whether it’s an increase in payroll taxes, an increase in capital gains and dividend taxes, an increase in Social Security taxes, or an increase on small- business owners. Everything he’s proposed is a tax increase, not a tax cut.

Watch it/read transcropt at link~

Fiorina’s assertion is flagrantly wrong and disingenuous. In fact, Obama prominently touts his plan to “cut income taxes by $1,000 for working families” on his website:


In fact, Obama touted his tax cut plan in a widely covered speech yesterday, saying that it would “provide $1,000 of relief to 95% of workers and their families.”

In the same segment, Fiorina claimed that her boss, John McCain, “has been very explicit about the taxes he will cut.” But she neglected to mention that McCain is far from explicit in explaining how he’ll pay for massive deficits created by his tax proposals. In fact, he refuses to name a single program he’ll cut.

[speedoo]

1. Fiorina = Failure.

She failed at HP and she is now shilling for a failure. With lies.

[cbc5g]

2. They lie through their teeth every election because they can't win fairly

They say Obama wants to tax hard working Americans. Another lie. They say Obama is the most liberal in the Senate. Another lie. They just lie and lie because no one in the MSM calls them on it but say, KO and sometimes Russert.

[bluethruandthru]

4. That's the real issue.

The fact that our "media" fails to call them on their lies. I think part of the problem is these so-called journalists don't know any of the candidates positions. They're just trained monkeys who ask a question and then nod at whatever answer they get. It's just unbelievable how dumb they all are! Keith and Rachel are exceptions.

[VP505]

3. Talk about a classic case of

say any bullshit, they will believe you, but then considering the source and audience its predictable.

[DiverDave]

5. Sent an email to Martha

just to point out the lie...not that it matters to the folks that don't have to tell the truth.

[babylonsister]

6. Self-delete. nt