08-01-2008, 08:48 AM
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McCain's Position on Taxes: "No New Taxes... maybe... that's DEFINITELY... maybe...
It's not like he's LYING or anything when he says "no new taxes."
He means he is NEGOTIATING!!!
Hey. This will be fun. For every time in this story where he says he will NOT raise taxes, I'll color it BLUE! And every time he says he MIGHT raise taxes, I'll color it RED! Then we'll see if we can figure out where the (*)(*)(*)(*) he actually STANDS on this issue.
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ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: Sen. John McCain has spent much of the week trying to explain his exchange on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” where he left the door open to raising taxes as part of a potential deal with Democrats on Social Security.
“There is nothing I would take off the table,” McCain said Sunday.
By mid-week, after the fiscal conservative group Club for Growth expressed outrage that he wouldn’t flatly rule out a tax increase, McCain, R-Ariz., seemed to clean up his answer.
“No,” he said curtly on Tuesday, when asked by a little girl in Nevada whether he’d raise taxes as president.
On Wednesday, he was even more explicit, offering his own twist on George H.W. Bush’s famous “read my lips” formulation.
“I want to look you in the eye: I will not raise your taxes nor support a tax increase. I will not do it,” McCain said at a town-hall meeting in Aurora, Colo., in the midst of an attack on Sen. Barack Obama on taxes, per ABC’s Bret Hovell.
But just hours later, he appeared to open another crack in his no-new-taxes pledge.
“In any negotiation that I might have, when I go in, my position will be that I am opposed to raising taxes. But we have to work together to save Social Security,” McCain said at a fundraiser Wednesday evening in Kansas City.
Pressed repeatedly in an interview with local reporters Wednesday, McCain said several times that he couldn’t rule anything out when it comes to Social Security.
“I’ve been involved in Washington in many negotiations on issues, whether it be immigration or campaign-finance reform or issues before the Commerce Committee. You go in with a position and you negotiate,” McCain said. “My position is that I’m against increased taxes, and my record shows that I have opposed tax increases and been in favor of tax cuts.”
McCain added: “My position going in in negotiations is I’m against tax increases, and I have not been supportive of tax increases, and we will negotiate and you have to negotiate in good faith.”
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So, it's clear. He will NOT RAISE TAXES. Unless, of course, he DOES.
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Last edited by The Jovial One; 08-01-2008 at 08:50 AM.
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