Matthew Yglesias » In Defense of John McCain

Aug 20th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

In Defense of John McCain

Via Ari Melber, Barack Obama links John McCain’s tax policies to his odd belief that people earning three or four million dollars are year aren’t rich:

This seems kind of unfair to McCain; if the operating factor here were really a belief in the middleclassness of low-grade multimillionaires, then McCain’s tax plans might phase out benefits for people making $6 million or $60 million or whatever. But in fact McCain has a principled belief in giving you more the richer you are — it’s true that someone earning $2 million a year does better than someone earning $200,000 or $20,000 but someone earning $20 million does even better.

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23 Responses to “In Defense of John McCain”

yup Says:
August 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
This seems kind of unfair to McCain . . .

File under section B of “Why Democrats always lose”: Liberal pundits always bring a spoon to a knife fight.
br Says:
August 20th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
yup, did you read matthew’s post? I know Matt piles the sarcasm on thick, so let me try and translate for you: it’s unfair to John McCain to suggest that he’s only going to give tax breaks to people making between 2.5 and 5 million annually. He’s going to give even bigger breaks to those making tens of million.
djw Says:
August 20th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
The inability of so many to identify Yglesias’s sarcasm remains one of the great mysteries of the blogosphere.
David B. Says:
August 20th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I thought McCain’s answer was horrible, not because of how out of touch he clearly is, but because a lot of Cadillac-driving republicans making between 500K and 5 million who were under the impression they were rich are now going to feel dissed. At least most people in that range work for their money–though a case can be made that pretending to find Cindy McCain interesting is most assuredly work.
Colatina Says:
August 20th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
The funny thing is that Rick Warren’s question about “who’s rich?” was probably intended to make Obama squirm, since he’s the one talking about raising taxes on the rich. That’s also why Obama had an answer for it. Even on this blog, not matter where you define rich, there will be someone who pops up to argue that they make that and they’re not rich. Too bad for McCain it backfired.
TH Says:
August 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
In fairness, I make more than $250,000 a year and certainly don’t feel rich. Perhaps that’s because I live in Manhattan. I rent my apartment, I don’t own a car, my paycheck barely covers my credit card bill each month. But I am of course better off than most people. There’s something morally deficient about the willingness some people have to always act put upon, as if being called rich is some sort of indignity to a family making $500,000 per year that, heaven forbid, couldn’t quite swing a third vacation with the kids this year.
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