Question for Obama supporters
Posted by Mike Sylvester - 10/27/08 @ 9:47 pm - Filed Under 2008 National Elections, National Politics
Senator Obama has ran a lot of local television ads advertising that “John McCain has voted in favor of tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas to China.”
Does anyone know how Senator Obama proposes to fix this problem or is it just empty rhetoric?
Mike Sylvester
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Both Parties have flung enough mud over the past few months. It all comes down to this. Who will inspire, encourage, and unite our country? When was the last time our president was celebrated overseas like Barak was in Germany? A figure like him only comes around once in a great while. I voted for Bush twice, and before that I voted for Dole. I am voting for Barak because he inspires me. Please keep in mind, the president doesn’t call all the shots. We should be just as careful when selecting our congress and senate.
Pat.
Mike,
In all your time in the Navy, have you ever encountered a freighter transporting jobs from one country to another? If I traveled up to Michigan, how much would the Post Office charge for me to ship a job back home?
It seems to me that the ads are referring to one or more of the following:
1. Repealing or reducing tariffs. (Pat, be advised that BHO could lose all that international support if he doesn’t promote free trade.)
2. Tax cuts that apply to all corporations.
Mike,
This may not be detailed enough for you, but I found it somewhere on an Obama website:
The tax code is filled with corporate loopholes and preferential regulations that benefit a handful of companies at the expense of the rest of the business community as well as ordinary people who are hit with higher effective tax rates. Some large companies have managed to secure tax breaks or to hide their profits in overseas tax havens and not pay any American corporate taxes at all.
Barack Obama will level the playing field for all businesses by eliminating special interest loopholes and deductions, such as those for the oil and gas industry, as well as by limiting the ability of large multi-national corporations to use tax havens to hide income overseas.
He will firmly institutionalize the economic substance doctrine so we can stop companies from creating abusive tax shelters. Obama will also crack down on the offshore tax havens engaged in shielding tax evaders from justice by refusing to share tax information with us the way all other nations do. This costs us tens of billions of dollars every year.
Mike,
There are a whole slew of loopholes that Senator Byron Dorgan has worked to close over the years and has never been successful.
A google search will pull up enough to keep you busy for the better part of a day…
“Barack Obama will level the playing field for all businesses by eliminating special interest loopholes and deductions, such as those for the oil and gas industry, as well as by limiting the ability of large multi-national corporations to use tax havens to hide income overseas.”
One can only hope this is the case. ‘John, the average working guy” would sure like a little more than lip service from elected officials! I don’t want a 400K spa treatment or 150K for clothes. Or even a $400 dollar hair cut. Just fair treatment!
Kevin Knuth,
Thanks for the information.
I think Obama is just trying to appeal to certain Americans with a general statement about outsourcing jobs.
Both Parties are working to make the tax code more complicated and many of the current Democratic proposals do the same thing; except the Democratic proposals are more likely to benefit unions and voting blocks that support Democrats.
The only way to fix this problem is to scrap the tax code entirely.
Mike
Jeff,
I agree that Senator Dorgan has SOME good ideas about fixing tax loopholes.
That being said, it seems to me like the Democrats are proposing to close loopholes that benefit some companies while creating new loopholes to benefit others.
I guess we will have to wait and see!
Mike
“Barack Obama will level the playing field for all businesses by eliminating special interest loopholes and deductions, such as those for the oil and gas industry, as well as by limiting the ability of large multi-national corporations to use tax havens to hide income overseas.”
One can only hope!
“John, the working guy” doesn’t want a free ride. Not even a 400K spa treatment, 150K in clothes or a $400 hair cut.
“John, the working guy” is sick and tired of B__ S__!
Sorry about the “Anonymous” above. Sometimes I hate computers!
On an unrelated note. I thought I had seen it all this political season, but apparently there was more to come.
This morning in the JG, we have Mike Student Council Montagano comparing himself to John F. Kennedy. Can I please be the first to channel Senator Bentsen… “I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine,…. Mikey Montagano, you are no Jack Kennedy.” Furthermore, I am fairly certain that a young JFK probably would have performed well enough to get the Journal Gazette endorsement!!”
Pat said: “It all comes down to this. Who will inspire, encourage, and unite our country?”
Pat, you appear a little confused. We’re electing a President, not a Cheerleader Laureate.
My god, could our congressional options be any worse in this district? What a travesty.
1. We have a Democrat who could not receive the Journal Gazette endorsement and therefore must be viewed by the JG as totally unprepapred for the position. Up until this year, I thought a pulse was enough for a Dem to get the JG endorsement
2. We have a Republican incumbent who obviously believes that his constituents are a bunch of borderline imbecils. When Souder makes his advertisesments, he must start with the basic presumption that he is dealing with a bunch of idiots. Souder thinks that he can just put his grandkid on his lap, and we, like a bunch of lemmings will say, oh he is a great guy because he has a grandkid. Souder has a radio ad in which he says (in an incredibly annoying voice) “when gas went to 3.80, congress passed the national be kind to cats day legislation… when gas went to 3.90, congress saluted the san diego soccer club…and on and on and on” Obviously, he thinks that we all have our heads so firmly entrenched up our back end that we do not understand that congress does more than one thing a day, or that these sort of random things are voted on EVERY single day! He takes us for Morons. Then, to top it all off, he believes that citizens will make the connection between his ability to lead on the economic crisis because he once sold penny candy at the souder store!!! I cannot take it anymore!!
What is a person to do? and, please dont suggest Bob Larson.
Looks like I am going to need to hold my nose once again and press Souder’s button. That is how bad the alternative appears to be.
On a side note, if Montagano loses, he should immediately audition to play the teenage version of the Yankee Clipper in the Joe Dimaggio story. He is a spittin image of the man.
The only way to fix this problem is to scrap the tax code entirely.
Mike
APPLAUDS!!!!
From Rumpole - “Pat, you appear a little confused. We’re electing a President, not a Cheerleader Laureate.”
Now Rumpole - help me here. You’re making fun of Pat’s comments and I think they have relevance.
A good leader has to be inspirational. Charismatic. A person can be the smartest man/woman ever but if they can’t capture the attention of the audience, it will make little difference.
And regardless of where you stand on Obama’s platform, you have to admit that he has done more to motivate and unite the younger generation than any other presidential candidate.
Does that make him the best? Individual choice :).
Definitely one of the positives of this year’s race is that we have many more people across several generations, talking, and more involved in the process.
At least that is my observation.