The Budget According to McCain

FactCheck | May. 14, 2008 (News Analysis)

The new McCain loves tax cuts. But many of his claims about them are off.

In our last installment we looked at McCain's pronouncements on spending cuts to help balance the budget. In Part II, we examine what he's said on a subject that might be more pleasing to many Americans: lowering taxes. We found exaggerations and distortions here, as well.
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by Michael Evelyn - Oct. 1, 2008

A good fact check article. Keeps the complicated tax policy issues quite simple and provides good references for those who may want more detail. Very fair and balanced by comparing the candidates positions. That fairness however is to McCain's detriment as his tax proposals are shown to be impractical. The all too frequent errors that McCain makes was higlighted here in his April 15th speech and tagged as a "verbal typo" Who says economic reporters have no sense of humor?