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matrushkaka's friends from back home have been urging her not to vote for Barack Obama because they say he's a socialist. I should start with some background and context. It used to be that you voted for a Republican to keep your taxes low, but that's
not true this year. The message has sunk in that Obama's tax plan cuts more taxes for more
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Thursday night's Daily Show, which you might enjoy, featured an increasingly incredulous Jon Stewart watching William Kristol call Alaska's entitlements the essence of capitalism (and night day and day night); it was surreality television at its finest.
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I do not care about tax cuts because it is unsustainable to cut taxes while having a war. Someone who wants to cut taxes while getting their war on makes me suspicious.
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That depends which McCain you were talking about. Back in the day he was all about letting them expire. Now that he's running as a Republican he's talking about making those tax cuts permanent and giving the rich *extra* tax cuts on top of that.
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My wife, Yoko, is continually amazed that we here in the US do not.
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