Ethics

Factcheck Rips McCain Again

By Ed Brayton

This is a bit old now, but Factcheck.org rips apart another dishonest commercial by the McCain campaign. This one has in fact been debunked multiple times, but they keep repeating the claim:

In what has become an ongoing theme, the McCain-Palin campaign has released yet another ad that makes false claims about Barack Obama's tax plan. The ad, which was released on Sept. 18 and which the campaign says will air nationally, claims that Obama will raise income taxes and will tax "life savings, electricity and home heating oil." As we keep saying, Obama says he'll raise income taxes and capital gains taxes only for couples earning more than $250,000 per year or singles making over $200,000. He has proposed no plans to raise taxes on either home heating oil or electricity.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 28, 2008 (boomark / email).