Spread the Tax Hooey!

FactCheck by Viveca Novak, Jess Henig | Oct. 26, 2008 (News Analysis)

Republicans are misrepresenting Obama's tax proposals right down to the bitter end. New radio ads from the McCain campaign and a TV spot from the pro-Republican group Let Freedom Ring are targeting voters nationwide with some of the same tax deceptions we've been hearing all fall, rolled in a bundle and flung through the airwaves. One of the radio ads features Hank Williams Jr., the other Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. But new packaging doesn't make the ... Full Story »

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by Tom Maertens - Oct. 26, 2008

The fact checkers have a hard time keeping up with the misinformation and disinformation spread by the McCain campaign and their surrogates, but this article tries. The facts closely correspond to the information provided by non-partisan sources such as the Center for Tax Policy. The McCain campaign will no doubt continue to scare people as much as they can. They are at a serious disadvantage, however, because the Obama campaign has more money with which to correct the record.