As November draws nearer – when I’ll vote for the first time – I realize how important my one vote might be.
Let me be frank. If we as citizens of the U.S. desire economic security, limited government involvement in our lives, fewer abortions, stricter laws on crime, lower taxes and a capitalist system, our presidential candidate for 2008 is Sen. John McCain.
While Barack Obama is persuasive and charismatic, he is running on a platform rife with socialist policies that seek to destroy two reasons America is so great – its Godly heritage and its capitalist system.
An economic platform that revolves around increasing taxes and providing more “services” to Americans by destroying the most premier medical system in the world will cause taxes to spike and service to plummet.
What was once a competition between medical professionals to provide the best service with the most recent technology will turn into no competition at all, which means awful service, long waits, and medical treatment by people who have no incentive to treat you at the top of their game.
In both the long and short runs, the matter of taxing is simple.
Fewer taxes mean more money for Americans to spend however they want. I believe Americans are smart enough to be able to know how to spend their money.
Obama doesn’t agree.
Fewer taxes also mean fewer programs from the government, but that’s not a bad thing. Privatized programs are consistently much better than governmental systems, because privatized systems are capitalist systems that survive on their ability to compete for consumers’ money.
Obama’s plans seem good, but apparently, only McCain truly gets economics.
If that alone is not compelling enough, McCain knows foreign policy and protection in a way Obama will never understand. If we had another terrorist attack, as in 2001, I would want McCain at our helm.
If we want true hope and true change, we’ll place it in the responsible hands of McCain.
E-mail Arielle Schneider at [email protected].
NEO CON 69 • Oct 16, 2008 at 12:58 am
Apparently giving your life for your country is honorable, but giving your money to your country is an “unpatriotic” injustice. If you are fortunate enough to strike it rich in this country, you should be thankful, not bitter and selfish. After all, it is your customers and employees who helped you get rich, you can’t do it on your own. So I would argue the point that these people “did not earn” that wealth. America has one of the lowest tax rates of any industrialized nation, and while the average American (who apparently pays no taxes at all, what a lie!) is struggling to pay bills, afford health care, and plan for retirement, the wealthy’s idea of sacrifice is not buying that 3rd yacht this year. The bottom line is that taxes based on ability to pay is pragmatic, it is common sense. A few extra thousand to Uncle Sam doesn’t mean much to a millionaire, but to the average Joe it can be the difference between sending a kid to college and forcing him or her to get a full-time job straight out of high school. How is someone in poverty supposed to acquire property and wealth when they cannot afford an education? That is why the upper class must be required to pay their fair share in taxes, because if it were up to them, they would keep everyone in their place so nobody rivals their wealth(and they justify this in the name of “freedom”). Thank goodness we have a candidate like Obama who stands up to big business and the good ol boys, and puts the priorities of regular Americans (health care, education, retirement) ahead of acquiring that 3rd yacht.
Ryan • Oct 14, 2008 at 3:19 pm
What a strong argument! If you don’t like something move! So the only way in America to ensure “fairness” is to take property from people and distribute it to other people who did not earn that property? That doesn’t sound fair to me. Does it matter if rich people don’t work? 80% of millionaires are first-generation, meaning they actually earned their money. I doubt they sit around and work 15 hours a week. Work on creating your own property and wealth, not taking it from others.
Jennifer • Oct 14, 2008 at 1:33 pm
With more money have to pay more taxes, that’s the way it works here. It’s the only way to ensure fairness. People who work hard aren’t necessarily rich, not all poor people are lazy freeloaders, and some rich people don’t even work. In America, we have things like public schools, highways, National Parks, and unjustified wars which take lots of tax money!! If you don’t like it, move to a country with no infrastructure.
Ryan • Oct 13, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Yeah…tax those evil rich bastards to death. None of them work hard for their money. If you think 95% of the people won’t have an increase in taxes then you are probably the people who faint at Obama rallies. After all, they are the ones who put up the money for your student loans. Remember, the bottom 50% of wage earners pay NO taxes.
McCain is older than TV dinners • Oct 13, 2008 at 1:47 am
This is why McCain is getting stomped on the daily. His economic plan is a relic. Just because Reagan said the fundamentals were solid doesn’t mean it holds up today.
This party-line blathering from the far right is what keeps the obscenely wealthy rolling in their ill-gotten gains. The only people that benefit with the GOP in charge will have to invest in cryogenics to live long enough to spend all the spoils.
Free-market politics and privatization only help out those pulling the strings. The little guy takes the financial hit while the highest 1 percent, those who’d be rightfully taxed according to Obama’s plan, are free to line their pockets as their workforce toils for minuscule wages.
Just ask Margaret Thatcher. Her mass privatization policy went over so well that thousands lost their jobs, leading to the Conservative Party’s thrashing in 1997.
The only way to right the economy is taxation. There is no way to regain the surplus we had under the last Democratic president without taking in money. Not taxing is a lateral move, but giving tax breaks to the wealthy is actually a step back. Trickle-down economics is a misnomer based on the regurgitated platitudes of GOP leaders. This money isn’t funneled into the economy — it languishes in the bank accounts of those who don’t need it.
Simply put: Highers taxes on the rich put a dent in the debt. The lower the debt = the lower the cost of living.
Government is at its corpulent best right now — riding high off eight years of Republican executive control. But, you still have the gall to say McCain knows politics. He is playing the same exact hand as every other brain trust from the GOP.
Bring a little more research and a lot less rehashed bull next time, Arielle. College students should be able to think for themselves — not recite decades-stale party doctrine to a tee.
I hope your Godly heritage keeps you warm at night as America wrenches back its freedom from the hands of the oppressive 1 percent. You’ll thank me when you pay your taxes all by your lonesome.
Jennifer • Oct 12, 2008 at 11:44 pm
HAHAHA where did she get her information from johnmccain.com? This article is so uninformed and ridiculous. Does Arielle know anything of the real world, the burdens of paying your own way and not relying on your parents? As an independent student I can vow to the expense of healthcare, gas, and food and the impact on my monthly budget.
I can’t wait for Obama to win the election and her life to get so much better, eg tax cuts (doubt she’s making 250,000/yr) more funding for education (the Spinmaker just did a story on budget cuts for bright futures!), better environmental protection, better healthcare for all Americans (means less people on welfare and out of work and using hospitals as primary care b/c they cannot afford regular doctors visits).
PS if Americans knew how to spend their money, don’t you think we could have avoided the economic crisis by people not foreclosing on their houses? To think Americans can really efficiently save their money by themselves without a government implemented savings plan is very naive and just another sign she has no idea how the real world, and real people operate. It’s nice to sit up in an ivory tower judging how the world “should be” no abortions, no socialism, privatize everything, but the reality of the situation is that it just doesn’t work.
Rachel • Oct 10, 2008 at 10:24 pm
This makes me want to vote for Obama.