The title really isn't shocking. We know McCain has lied before in his ads, such as with his recent one about Obama and sexual education. But let's take a look again at this 30-second soundbite:
I wish the McCain campaign could point me where in Obama's tax plan it states that electricity and heating oil would be taxed? Oh, wait. That's right. Obama is actually wanting to give people a $1,000 tax rebate on heating costs. Did McCain's campaign confuse a tax rebate with an actual tax? Or are they confusing a windfall profits tax, a tax on the coproration, with a tax on the consumer? Wait a minute...maybe they shouldn't go that route, since Palin supported a windfall tax in Alaska. Oops.
Probably not. They are claiming that in order to cover all of Obama's plans, Obama would eventually have to raise taxes. That's not what the ad implies. The ad makes the viewer believe Obama would tax such things now, not later. McCain is welcome to his opinion on the spending Obama proposes, but neither candidate has proposed anything that would cut down the budget's deficit (analysis on Obama and McCain from the Tax Policy Center).
But don't tell anyone that McCain's plans would actually increase the debt by about twice as much as Obama's plans. It may upset the kool-aid drinkers.
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