Re: McCain Spokesman Says John McCain Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About On Social Security.
- From: "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:32:44 -1000
It is really a simple matter. Social Security has made promises it cannot possibly keep. So, someday in the future, the system will not be able to keep the promises it has made. So, if McCain will not raise taxes, then the right question is, how is he going to solve the problem? The only logical answer is, he can only solve the problem, assuming of course that the system remains, and he is not willing to increase revenues into the system, is to reduce benefits. Which of course he would never say that is what he would do. Of course there is another alternative, and that is to scrap the system, and come up with some other way to do what the system was intended to do, but you probably won't be in favor of that either, which he has not said either.
On the other hand, Obama has not even addressed the issue of what he would do about the simple fact that the system cannot possibly keep the promises it has made.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:b8l194ldct5n46ur4ofn0j7v8192k0q2v1@xxxxxxxxxx
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/29/mccain-bounds-social-security/
July 29th, 2008
McCain Spokesman: John McCain Doesn't Know What He's Talking About On
Social Security»
On Sunday, ABC's George Stephanopoilos asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
about his plans to fix Social Security.
McCain said repeatedly that "everything has to be on the table"
regarding possible reforms - including a payroll tax increase:
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Story?id=5457720&page=3
STEPHANOPOULOS: So, that means payroll tax increases are on the table,
as well?
MCCAIN: There is nothing that's off the table.
The comments drew a "sharp rebuke" from the Club for Growth, who wrote
McCain a letter calling the comments "shocking because you have been
adamant in your opposition to raising taxes under any circumstances."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h6BGElNdpY2nz-fImarr0qXLqaXgD92778Q00
In fact, just last year McCain explicitly told the National Review
that he refused to consider any sort of tax increase.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGQxZWE1Y2NhZDVkN2E1MzBmMjU4MmNkNWZmYmZkNTM=
He also told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "No new taxes."
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/19/mccain-no-new-taxes/
Trying to stymie the conservative blow-back over his boss's recent
comments, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds insisted to Fox News this
morning that the senator hadn't really been speaking for the campaign.
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/07/29/mccain-payroll-tax/
When Fox host Megyn Kelly insisted Bounds stop "waffling" and answer
whether a tax increase was "on the table," Bounds replied, "No":
KELLY: Might the Social Security tax go up? Is that on the table?
BOUNDS: No, Megyn, there is no imaginable circumstance where John
McCain would raise payroll taxes. It's absolutely out of the question.
Kelly remarked that Bounds seemed to be promoting a different opinion
from his candidate.
When Bounds said that he agreed with Holtz-Eakin, Kelly interjected,
"But you're guy doesn't agree with him."
"No," Bounds seemed to admit.
As Igor Volsky documents in the Wonk Room, McCain has gone back and
forth a number of times on the issue of increasing the payroll tax.
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/07/29/mccain-payroll-tax/
The truth is that lifting the current cap is the fairest way to help
shore up the finances of Social Security.
Update
This is the third time this week that the McCain's advisers has
suggested that McCain himself isn't speaking for the campaign
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/25/holtz-eakin-mccain-may-not-speak-for-the-mccain-campaign-on-the-economy/
or doesn't understand his own policy.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/28/mccain-affirmative-action/
Update
In a March 16 interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, McCain said he
would cut taxes where possible, and not raise them.
"Do you mean none?" Hannity asked.
"None," McCain replied.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080730/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_taxes
______________________________________________
McCain's spokesman has finally found out what most of us have already
known.
Harry
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