McCain, who would like us to see him as holding a consistent and principled stance on tax cuts and fiscal discipline, is engaging in the mother of all economic policy flip-flops.
If McCain's opposition to Bush's tax cuts was based on the unseemliness of letting deficits balloon for the benefit of top earners in a time of war, then his opposition should have grown stronger. Instead, it grew weaker and then collapsed.
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Excellent analysis of the true deficit swelling potential and fiscal irresponsibility of McCain's economic policy. It is very well sourced and has numerous references and links to sources for further exploration. This is one of the most thorough 'call outs' on McCain's tax cutting proposals and although the writer mentions McCain's inconsistency, "calling this the mother of all flip-flops' the article is less interested in the hypocrisy, but more telling in its substantive analysis of the cost and sheer irresponsibility of McCain's proposals
