On taxes, John McCain has proposed to pretty much double Bush's tax cuts (though I think he was against them before)  and cutting earmarks...well not all earmarks  and ending wasteful spending in DC.

The nice folks at the Center for American Progress have made a graph showing how fantastically effective this is!

Um. Yeah. I don't get it either.

Anywhoo, he's a GOP ass who has proposed more tax cuts to help the most fortunate of our society get more fortunate and surely he'll propose cuts in social programs meant to help the least fortunate of our society to pay for them. I'm pretty sure that his tax policy is regressive and that's not exactly what progressives are for.

Well we have the majority in the house and the senate (sorta) so I'm sure we can trust Congress not to give away the farm to the rich folks right? (we might want to get a few more of those Bush dogs/conservative dems out of there just to make sure).

Anyway, the WSJ wrote:

"Sen. John McCain is proposing tax cuts that would either cause the federal deficit to explode or would require unprecedented spending cuts equal to one-third of federal spending on domestic programs...Altogether, he proposes more than $650 billion in tax cuts a year, much of it benefiting corporations and upper-income families. That includes the cost of extending tax cuts implemented under President Bush that he voted against twice. To help pay for it all, the Arizona senator says he would cut $160 billion a year from a federal discretionary budget that totals a little more than $1 trillion. He hasn't specified where the cuts would come from...The chances of cuts of this magnitude are 'nonexistent,' said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan group that promotes fiscal discipline. 'There's not a consensus to cut back on the functions of government that much,' he said. 'Those are very, very deep cuts...'

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There might not be a consensus but there are a lot of rich people in the DC bubble who look out for their own first. We can't let them do that. If McSame is President we'll have to hold the Dems' feet to the fire so they don't cave when McCain gets into office.

BTW, those numbers don't make a damn bit of sense. He still needs to make up $500 BIIILLLLLIOOON somewhere.

Looking at our 2.6 trillion dollar budget and an nice little pie chart this bleeding heart liberal sees where we could cut billions in spending without cutting needed social programs.

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Not that Johnny Mac would go along with some cuts in defense to balance his bad math. Better to drop the HUGE tax cuts altogether methinks.  

As the Congressional Budget Office found back in 2003:

[A]ny new revenue that tax cuts brought in paled in comparison with their cost. This is why the deficit jumped under the last two tax-cutting presidents (Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush) and fell under the last two tax-raising presidents (George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton).

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What's sad is that the guy who made that finding is now heading McSame's economic team and he appears to have sold himself out.