CAPITAL GAINS
TAX
MCCAIN
15% (no
change)
OBAMA
28%
CLINTON
24%
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, 28% 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
39.6%
CLINTON
39.6%
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, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money
earned on taxes if Obama or Clinton become 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)
Single making 30K - tax
$4,500
Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single
making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K- tax
$9,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married
making 125K - tax
$31,250
OBAMA
(reversion to
pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K -
tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax
$38,750
CLINTON
(reversion to
pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K -
tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax
$38,750
How does this affect
you? No explanation needed. This is pretty straight
forward.
INHERITANCE
TAX
MCCAIN
0%
(No change, Bush repealed
this tax)
OBAMA
keep the inheritance
tax
CLINTON
keep the inheritance
tax
How does this affect
you? Many families have lost businesses, farms and 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 not
only lose them to these taxes.
NEW TAXES BEING
PROPOSED BY BOTH CLINTON AND 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!!!
Can you afford
Clinton or Obama? I can't!!!!!
(in case you want
more information on Obama's tax and spend
agenda:
If Sen. Barack Obama
(D-IL) Could Enact All Of His Campaign Proposals, Taxpayers Would Be Faced
With Financing $874.35 Billion In New Spending Over One White House Term:
Updated February 14, 2008: Obama's National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank
Will Cost $60 Billion Over Ten Years; Equal To $6 Billion A Year And $24
Billion Over Four Years. Obama: "I'm proposing a National Infrastructure
Reinvestment Bank that will invest $60 billion over ten years." (Sen.
Barack Obama, Remarks On Economic Policy, Janesville, WI,
2/13/08)
Obama's Health Care Plan Will Cost Up To $65
Billion A Year; Equal To $260 Billion Over Four Years. "[Obama] campaign
officials estimated that the net cost of the plan to the federal
government would be $50 billion to $65 billion a year, when fully phased
in, and said the revenues from rolling back the tax cuts were enough to
cover it." (Robin Toner and Patrick Healy, "Obama Calls For Wider And Less
Costly Health Care Coverage," The New York
Times,
5/30/07)
Obama's Energy Plan Will Cost $150 Billion Over 10
Years, Equal To $15 Billion Annually And $60 Billion Over Four Years.
"Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next
generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the
commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of
commercial-scale renewable energy, invest in low-emissions coal plants,
and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid." (Obama For
America, "The Blueprint For Change," www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 25)
Obama's Tax Plan Will Cost Approximately $85
Billion A Year; Equal To $340 Billion Over Four Years. "[Obama's] proposed
tax cuts and credits, aimed at workers earning $50,000 or less per year,
would cost the Treasury an estimated $85 billion annually." (Margaret
Talev, "Obama Proposes Tax Code Overhaul To Help The Poor,"
McClatchy
Newspapers, 9/19/07)
- Obama's Plan Would Raise Taxes On
Capital Gains And Dividends, And On Carried Interest. Obama's tax plan
includes: "[i]ncreasing the highest bracket for capital gains and
dividends and closing the carried interest loophole." (Obama For
America, "Barack Obama: Tax Fairness For The Middle Class," Fact Sheet,
www.barackobama.com, Accessed
1/8/08)
Obama's Economic
Stimulus Package Will Cost $75 Billion. "Barack Obama's economic plan will
inject $75 billion of stimulus into the economy by getting money in the
form of tax cuts and direct spending directly to the people who need it
most." (Obama For America, "Barack Obama's Plan To Stimulate The Economy,"
Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, 1/13/08)
Obama's Early Education And K-12 Package Will Cost
$18 Billion A Year; Equal To $72 Billion Over Four Years "Barack Obama's
early education and K-12 plan package costs about $18 billion per year."
(Obama For America, "Barack Obama's Plan For Lifetime Success Through
Education," Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, 11/20/07, p. 15)
Obama's National Service Plan Will Cost $3.5
Billion A Year; Equal To $14 Billion Over Four Years. "Barack Obama's
national service plan will cost about $3.5 billion per year when it is
fully implemented." (Obama For America, "Helping All Americans Serve Their
Country: Barack Obama's Plan For Universal Voluntary Citizen Service,"
Fact Sheet, www.barackobama.com, 12/5/07)
Obama Will Increase Our Foreign Assistance Funding
By $25 Billion. "Obama will embrace the Millennium Development Goal of
cutting extreme poverty around the world in half by 2015, and he will
double our foreign assistance to $50 billion to achieve that goal." (Obama
For America, "The Blueprint For Change," www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 53)
Obama Will Provide $2 Billion To Aid Iraqi
Refugees. "He will provide at least $2 billion to expand services to Iraqi
refugees in neighboring countries, and ensure that Iraqis inside their own
country can find a safe-haven." (Obama For America, "The Blueprint For
Change," www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 51)
Obama Will Provide $1.5 Billion To Help States
Adopt Paid-Leave Systems. "As president, Obama will initiate a strategy to
encourage all 50 states to adopt paid-leave systems. Obama will provide a
$1.5 billion fund to assist states with start-up costs and to help states
offset the costs for employees and employers." (Obama For America, "The
Blueprint For Change," www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 15)
Obama Will Provide $1 Billion Over 5 Years For
Transitional Jobs And Career Pathway Programs, Equal To $200 Million A
Year And $800 Million Over Four Years. "Obama will invest $1 billion over
five years in transitional jobs and career pathway programs that implement
proven methods of helping low-income Americans succeed in the workforce."
(Obama For America, "The Blueprint For Change," www.barackobama.com, Accessed 1/14/08, p. 42)
Obama Will Provide $50 Million To Jump-Start The
Creation Of An IAEA-Controlled Nuclear Fuel Bank. Obama: "We must also
stop the spread of nuclear weapons technology and ensure that countries
cannot build -- or come to the brink of building -- a weapons program
under the auspices of developing peaceful nuclear power. That is why my
administration will immediately provide $50 million to jump-start the
creation of an International Atomic Energy Agency-controlled nuclear fuel
bank and work to update the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty." (Sen. Barack
Obama, "Renewing American Leadership," Foreign
Affairs, 7-8/07)
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