Since I don’t like either candidates and there plan, I’ll just stay out of the debate of who’s better. But my perfect candidate would say “I’ll lower everyone’s taxes and I’ll do A, B, C, D, etc to cut government spending so that we can have low taxes and reduce our deficit at the same time.”
The only reason I brought up the nursing family example is to show how 2 middle class jobs can get to $250k and therefore, $250k is not rich. They’re well off, yes, but not rich. Isn’t this the whole point with rewarding work vs wealth?
See the comment I just left in the other McCain vs Obama thread.
Basically, there’s no easy way to cut government spending to any significant extent (other than pulling out of Iraq, which McCain does not intend to do, and cutting Medicare/SS benefits, which would be suicidal to even propose during the election campaign). We had almost 6 full years with a Republican president and a Republican congress (2001-2006) and they didn’t figure out how to do that. McCain won’t, either.
So it is dishonest to claim that you can start with an estimated budget deficit of 15% of your budget, CUT TAXES, and then somehow balance the whole thing.
The example of two nurses busting their asses working 6 12-hour shifts a week seems to be very far-fetched to me. First of all, very few middle-class jobs allow you to make 120k even with overtime. Sooner or later kids will appear and you can live comfortably in San Diego with 120k income, stay-at-home mom, and some kids. At that moment your nursing family will fall out of 250k bracket.
250k income puts you in the top 5% earning households in San Diego. I think that’s rich.
