McCain Taxes His Credibility in the Granite State
While McCain isn't hesitating to use the alternative minimum tax (AMT) in his stump speech, he failed to show up to vote for a Senate bill a week and a half ago to provide 19 million taxpayers relief from the AMT. The votes he missed came after McCain's GOP colleagues forced Senate leadership to dump fiscal responsibility and eliminate requirements for the tax relief to be offset, adding $50 billion to the national debt. [U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110th Congress - 1st Session, Vote 00415 , Vote 00414 , 12/6/07; Senate Democratic Communications Center, 12/6/07' AP , 12/6/07]
On President Bush's tax cuts, McCain's record is even more troublesome. Columnist Mark Shields called McCain's support for the Bush tax cuts after having voted against them in 2001 as a "false step" and described his excuse as "lame and decidedly un-maverick." As he noted in 2006, McCain "voted against Bush's tax cuts when the nation's debt stood at $5.6 trillion and voted for the same tax cuts after the federal debt had bloated to $8.4 trillion." [Union Leader , 4/16/06]
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Yet he voted against Bush's tax cuts when the nation's debt stood at $5.6 trillion and voted for the same tax cuts after the federal debt had bloated to $8.4
http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/12/mccain_taxes_hi.php
19 million votes he should not get ...
any of you dumb-ass right-wingers here pay AMT ???