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McCain and Social Security Taxes

By James Pethokoukis

Posted: July 28, 2008

Ramesh Ponnuru has a post over at the Corner about McCain's seeming willingness—per his ABC News interview—to raise Social Security taxes.

My take: I know of no political analyst who thinks a President McCain could fix Social Security with a Democratic Congress without agreeing to higher taxes as part of the deal. Even McCain points to the tax-hiking Greenspan Commission of the 1980s as a model of bipartisanship. And McCain has in the past gone on the record in favor of just such a compromise. Maybe because a McCain win would be such an upset, he would come into office with amazing momentum and impose his will on stunned Democrats. Maybe.

Fileing suit to verify every ballot before election certified

I think that in each state where ACORN has turned in voter registration forms the Republican state party chairman needs to file suit to verify each and every ballot as to the elegibility and identity of the voter. The ceaseless attempts by Democrats to commit voter fraud in every state of the union requires that NO ballot be accepted now adways without a retinal or thumbprint verification. In 1960 Kennedy "beat" Nixon on the basis of 162000 votes delivered in Chicago. We now KNOW that at leats 65000 of them were fraudulent. I dont care what blacks and illegals say about me... MY civil rights are violated in every election because of Democratic Party voter fraud. I may file suit myself... Im pretty sure I can find another 165 people here in Texas who feel the same.

Jack Rogers of TX @ Oct 17, 2008 12:17:14 PM

Social Security Tax Hike

And Gerry Eberwein thinks Congress will get these funds from where? Yes, they stole it, we watched (sort of, our media being what it is), we let them, now we owe it to us. Sorry, kids and grandchildren.

Tom Zimmerman of ME @ Jul 29, 2008 13:48:17 PM

No "stun" game

McCain is not going to pull an upset. Democrats are not going to be "stunned". And McCain isn't going to "impose his will" on anything.

Daniel David of NM @ Jul 29, 2008 10:57:28 AM

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