Sarah Palin - The Next Reagan from Planck's Constant

John McCain and Sarah Palin – Dayton,Ohio 8/29/08
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McCain could not have made a better choice. Sarah Palin is young, attractive, smart, oil/energy savvy, and just as unknown as Bill Clinton was when he entered the national limelight.

Democraps will cry that she has no experience yet have no problem trying to foist on this country a communist, former-Muslim (actually Obama's only good quality), anti-business, tax-and-spend know-nothing community-organizer nobody who has less experience governing than Sarah Palin.

I have heard her speak on radio interviews a number of times and I believe that we have the makings of another Reagan. We will see how she holds up with the press in the coming months. It's shaping up to be an interesting election.

I think Palin has a chance to be the first woman Vice-President for the following two reasons:

If McCain wins in 2008 he may not run again in 2012 for reasons of health or death; in which case she would make a natural Presidential candidate.

If Obama wins in 2008 the country will be in such a despicable state that no Democrat will be elected President for another few decades. I believe even if McCain loses the conservatives will remember how well she appeared in the 2008 campaign run.

2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE COMPARISON TALKING POINTS

ISSUE		JOHN McCAIN	BARAK OBAMA
Favors new drilling offshore US		Yes	No
Will appoint judges who interpret the law not make it		Yes	No
Served in the US Armed Forces		Yes	No
Amount of time served in the US Senate		22 YEARS	173 DAYS
Will institute a socialized national health care plan		No	Yes
Supports abortion throughout the pregnancy		No	Yes; ; in addition, supports post-pregnancy infanticide (abandoning of a living infant resulting from a failed abortion)
Would pull troops out of Iraq immediately		No	Yes
Supports gun ownership rights		Yes	No
Supports homosexual marriage		No	Yes
Proposed programs will mean a huge tax increase		No	Yes
Voted against making English the official language		No	Yes
Voted to give Social Security benefits to illegals		No	Yes
CAPITAL GAINS TAX
MCCAIN	0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax.
OBAMA	28% on gains over $250,000 from home sales. But see Note 1 (How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 20% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.)
DIVIDEND TAX
MCCAIN	15% (no change)
OBAMA	28% - But see Note 2 (How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends (outside of tax-deferred accounts), you will be paying nearly 28% in taxes of the money earned if Obama becomes president. The experts predict that 'Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market, yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.')
INCOME TAX
MCCAIN (no changes)	Keeping the Bush Tax Cuts and even raising the exemption deductions to $7,000 per person
OBAMA (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)	Raising the top individual tax rate to return to 39.6% - See Note 3 Under Obama, your taxes could almost double!
INHERITANCE TAX
MCCAIN	- 15 percent rate -$5 million exemption - See Note 4
OBAMA	45 percent rate - $3.5 million exemption Many families have lost businesses, farms, ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will only lose them to this level of taxes.
NEW TAXES PROPOSED BY OBAMA
New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet. New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already) New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity) New taxes on retirement accounts, and last but not least....New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!

Sources: CNN
FoxNews
AARP
Washington Post - Fact Checker: Obama
Washington Post - Fact Checker: McCain

ENDNOTES

I have added more detailed links and explanatory material below and in fairness to Obama I have included his new, revised tax plans from his website:

Note 1:

Capital Gains Taxes

Obama favors taxing more of capital gains, not because it brings in more revenues, but it keeps so-called "rich" people from making too much money- to be more "fair":

On The Issues, Barack Obama on Tax Reform
Q: You favor an increase in the capital gains tax, saying, "I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton, which was 28%." It's now 15%. That's almost a doubling if you went to 28%. Bill Clinton dropped the capital gains tax to 20%, then George Bush has taken it down to 15%. And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28%, the revenues went down.

A: What I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness. The top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year--$29 billion for 50 individuals. Those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. That's not fair.

Q: But history shows that when you drop the capital gains tax, the revenues go up.

A: Well, that might happen or it might not. It depends on what's happening on Wall Street and how business is going.

Obama has since backpedaled his Capital Gains tax downward to 20%:

BarackObama.com, FactSheet Tax Plan Final PDF
Capital Gains: Families with incomes below $250,000 will continue to pay the capital gains rates that they pay today. For those in the top two income tax brackets – likewise adjusted to affect only
families over $250,000 – Obama will create a new top capital gains rate of 20 percent.

Note 2:

Taxes on Dividends

Obama has since revised his Dividend tax rate downward to 20%:

BarackObama.com, FactSheet Tax Plan Final
Dividends: The top dividends rate for people making over $250,000 would be set at 20 percent.

Note 3:

Income Taxes

NY Sun, 15 Jul 2008, Obama Capital Gains Tax Hike Would Hit N.Y. Hard
According to the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, Mr. Obama's tax hike would knock off $2.5 trillion in capital formation over five years, or nearly 2% of gross domestic product.
Mr. Obama is not only proposing raising the capital gains and dividend tax to 25% but will allow much of the Bush tax cuts to expire, including allowing the top individual income tax rate to return to 39.6%.

Defending his plan in a debate in April, Senator Obama spoke of the need for "fairness."

Obama has not changed his proposal for a higher income tax rate in his website's fact sheet:

BarackObama.com, FactSheet Tax Plan Final
Ordinary Income: The top two income tax brackets would return to their 1990’s levels of 36% and 39.6%.

Note 4:

Inheritance Tax

AARP, 17 Jun 2008, McCain, Obama Offer Different Visions on Taxes
The estate tax is phasing out and is completely eliminated for 2010, but it snaps back to 2001 levels -- a 55 percent top rate with the first $675,000 exempt -- at the end of that year. McCain wants a 15 percent rate, and a $5 million exemption, while Obama advocates a 45 percent rate and a $3.5 million exemption.