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Eye On Ohio: Obama’s ‘Three Times’ ad
By Jonathan Riskin and Jack Torry
The Columbus Dispatch
The ad: “Three times,” 30 seconds.
Producer: Obama campaign.
Where to see it: It is airing in Ohio and other key states. View it at DaytonDailyNews.com/eyeonohio.
Script: Narrator: Can we really afford more of the same?
John McCain’s tax plan:
For big corporations — $200 billion in new tax breaks.
Oil companies — $4 billion.
Companies shipping jobs overseas — keep their tax giveaways.
While 100 million Americans … get no tax relief at all.
For the change we need … Barack Obama.
A plan that cuts taxes for middle-class families three times as much as John McCain would.
Barack Obama. President.
Obama: I’m Barack Obama. And I approve this message.
Video: The spot opens with a man, seemingly in his 60s and middle class, looking soberly into the camera as the narrator asks the opening question. It then goes to footage of Sen. John McCain, and to a shot of a corporate meeting and gas station prices as the ad makes its charge that McCain’s economic plan gives tax breaks that are too large. The ad then shifts to shots of Obama with ordinary-looking people and touts his tax plan’s breaks for the middle class.
Analysis: This is the latest installment in the “my tax cut is bigger than yours” argument raging between Obama and McCain. Obama wants to end the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for individuals with incomes of more than $200,000 and families making more than $250,000. He also plans a $1,000 tax break for what his campaign says would be “95 percent of workers and their families.” McCain wants to extend all the 2001 and 2003 tax reductions, which are scheduled to expire in 2010.
The 2001 and 2003 tax laws reduced income-tax rates for everyone, cut taxes on married couples, and slashed the federal tax on dividends and capital gains. Most tax analysts believe that McCain’s plan would provide greater tax benefits to wealthier Americans. But conservative economists argue that raising taxes on any income group when the economy is sluggish slows economic growth.
In addition, McCain wants to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. That allows Obama to accurately say that McCain would reduce taxes on corporations, including oil companies. But McCain’s reason for proposing a cut in the corporate tax rate is to encourage U.S. companies to invest more in the United States rather than abroad. McCain argues that many U.S. competitors are lowering their corporate tax rates and that America must follow suit.
Jonathan Riskind and Jack Torry are reporters for The Columbus Dispatch. E-mail: jriskind@dispatch.com and jtorry@dispatch.com.
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