08-18-2008, 02:40 PM
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let me be clear
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Originally Posted by Rekna
US + Allies = nationS emphasis on the S....
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I understand how this situation has proved to be an inconvenient truth for your argument.
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Originally Posted by Rekna
Anyway the comment is still very hypocritical. How about McCain saying you aren't rich until you make 5 million a year?
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OK, let's take a look at what the transcript says:
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WARREN: Everybody talks about, you know, taxing the rich, but not the poor, the middle class. At what point, give me a number, give me a specific number. Where do you move from middle class to rich?
MCCAIN: Some of the richest people I’ve ever known in my life are the most unhappy. I think that Rich should be defined by a home, a good job, an education, and the ability to hand to our children a more prosperous and safer world than the one that we inherited. I don’t want to take any money from the Rich. I want everybody to get Rich. I don’t believe in class warfare or redistribution of the wealth but I can tell you, for example, there are small businessmen and women who are working 16 hours a day, seven days a week, that some people would classify as “rich.” My friends, want to raise their tax, want to raise their payroll taxes. Keep taxes low. Let’s give every family in America a $7,000 tax credit for every child they have. Let’s give them a $5,000 refundable tax credit to go out and get the health insurance of their choice. Let’s not have the government take over their health care system in America.
So i think if you’re just talking about income, how about $5 million? No, but seriously, I don’t think you can, I don’t think seriously that the point is I’m trying to make seriously and I’m sure that comment will be distorted but the point is, the point is, the point is that we want to keep people’s taxes low, and increase revenues, and my friend, it was not taxing that mattered in America in the last several years. It was spending. Spending got completely out of control.
So it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is because i don’t want to raise anybody’s taxes. I really don’t. In fact, I want to give working Americans a better shot at having a better life.
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So he really doesn't think it should be $5 million, it was a rhetorical comment with intended sarcasm. He called it correctly that his comment would be distorted.
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