Sean’s Blogorama

So John McCain at many of his recent rallies has made one of his main criticisms of Barack Obama is that Sen. Obama wants a more progressive tax system that will “redistribute wealth” from voters to others.  This shows that Sen. McCain is out of touch because this will only win him support among an small group of people.  Because under the Bush years real wages have dropped and the majority of income increases have been among millionaires.  Unlike in the mid to late 20th Century when wages grew for nearly everyone, the vast majority of the voting population has had their income drop under the economic policies of the Bush Administration which, John McCain wishes to continue.

In fact this argument should actually help Sen. Obama because now that the wealth is concentrated in fewer hands the people who would benefit from a redistribution of wealth far outnumber those that would have to pay the increased taxes.

As E.J Dionne said paying taxes is the price we pay to have good infrastructure and law and order, etc.

I think that John McCain is glad that Obama didn’t accept his invitation to do a bunch of town hall meetings starting back in the summer.  If they had done that he’d have a statistically immesuarable poll rating.  I mean Barack Obama just wiped the floor with John McCain in both style and substance.  The pundits had said that McCain had the advantage because he does town halls all the time, except this time it was not a pre-screened, self-selected audience with an already favorable attitude.  Rather it was a somewhat more random cross-section of potential voters who support either one candidate or the other or have yet to make up their minds who asked questions that weren’t planted by a campaign worker so that he could just spit out his talking points.  Also he looked totally uncomfortable on the stage and seemed unsure of his answers.