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October 24, 2008 10:24 AM

Palin: Obama Will Raise Taxes On Special Needs Trusts

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Scott Conroy
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Sarah Palin
(CBS)
From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

(PITTSBURGH) - In her first policy speech as a vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin laid out details of how she would commit to helping children with special needs.

The Alaska governor, whose infant son Trig has Down syndrome, said that a McCain/Palin administration would allow more flexibility for parents to choose their children's schools, committed to fully fund the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, and promised to reform and refocus special needs services.

Though she has previously declared that this issue should be nonpartisan, Palin said that Barack Obama's tax plan would hurt families who establish financial trusts to care for their special needs kids.

"Understandably then, many families with special needs children or dependent adults, they're concerned about in this race our opponent in this election who plans to raise taxes on precisely these kinds of financial arrangements," she said.

"They fear that Sen. Obama's tax increase will have serious and harmful consequences and they're right because the burden that his plan would pose upon these families is just one more example of how many plans can be disrupted and how many futures can be placed at risk and how many people can suffer when the power to tax is misused."

Palin said that Obama has "an ideological commitment" to raising taxes, while she and John McCain will lower taxes to promote growth.

"We'll protect the savings and the earnings of American families, and we'll allow more of that investment and the prioritization via our own families to make the difference here," she said.

  • Scott Conroy

    Scott Conroy is a National Political Reporter for RealClearPolitics and a contributor for CBS News.

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by chrispy53 October 27, 2008 12:23 AM EDT
As governor, Sarah Palin cut funding for special needs education,$7,000 to $3,000.Now she is committed to helping children with special needs.If she hadn''t had a child with special needs,would she care about us and our families then?
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by jncc1701 October 26, 2008 1:42 PM EDT
How many of the middle class have a savings account let along trusts for their children - special needs nor not?
This is just more nonsense for the rich to help themselves at our expense.
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by joegoebbels October 26, 2008 1:25 AM EDT
Seeing as how one-heartbeat-away-President Palin wants to discontinue scientific research on the animal models that have yielded several Nobel Prizes relationing to brain research, specifically fruit flies, it seems as if we''ll be left with no other alternatives but to experiment directly on special needs children. Good idea there, Would-Be-President Idiocracy in action, let''s slice and dice their brais and put them in blenders... Or could it be that research on animal models provides some of the clearest evidence yet for evolution, natural selection, and the common descent through modification of all life on earth over billions of years... a fact that does not agree with her fundamentalist and exclusionary religious views?
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by joegoebbels October 26, 2008 1:22 AM EDT
Seeing as how one-heartbeat-away-President Palin wants to discontinue scientific research on the animal models that have yielded several Nobel Prizes relationing to brain research, specifically fruit flies, it seems as if we''ll be left with no other alternatives but to experiment directly on special needs children. Good idea there, Would-Be-President Idiocracy in action, let''s slice and dice their brais and put them in blenders... Or could it be that research on animal models provides some of the clearest evidence yet for evolution, natural selection, and the common descent through modification of all life on earth over billions of years... a fact that does not agree with her fundamentalist and exclusionary religious views?
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by pjc27 October 25, 2008 1:33 PM EDT
Palin thinks she knows about special needs? Then she should know that it was the fruit fly study that helped find one of the chromosones that causes autism.

But that was a study by those evolutionist scientists so I guess it doesn''t count.

She is dumber than a box of rocks.

On another note, some friends from overseas, where even Joe the Plumber has become well known, think Americans are off their rocker even having these two on a tciket -any ticket. They are an international embarassment.
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by cn-smeesq October 25, 2008 11:56 AM EDT
Palin is deliriously out of touch with mainstream people. How many special needs children have families that can afford to establish trusts for them? 3 maybe 4%? And wealthy people who can afford to set up trusts are likely not terribly concerned about a few more dollars of taxes to be paid on that trust.
Someone needs to explain to Palin that allowing special needs families to choose any school, public or private, for their special needs child will literally break the education budget of every state.
What a joke Palin is. SHe doesn''t know what she''s talking about.
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by misha128-2009 October 25, 2008 11:44 AM EDT
Posted by atoh1 at 09:32 PM

Joe the Plumber is another McCain / Palin hoax brought to us by McCain the Liar and Palin the Liar.
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by misha128-2009 October 25, 2008 11:41 AM EDT
Palin exposes McCain s spending frees as an even greater campaign hoax. This list of exceptions is so long it is difficult to tell if anything will be frozen. And that relatively small amount of earmarks in reality has grown in the McCain / Palin fantasy so many times it boggles the mind so their fabricated offset will cover all their additional spending. Apparently neither candidate can balance the budget without delving into their fantasy version of imaginary numbers.
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by keljacks2 October 25, 2008 2:02 AM EDT
I am dissappointed the Pig of earnmarks who hired a lobbyist to make sure Alaska get its share of earnmarks now wants to cut it to fund kids with special needs. Its unfair because you leave others out. This selfish B**tch benefitted while she was governor, but now because she won''t need them anymore if she''s VP is selfish and inconsiderate. Some States depend on them it''s also good for research. It was okay for her $402,000 arctic fox study but she laugh at fruit fly projects. Why do she think we are so stupid. Now she want to use her down syndrom child to collect votes. I expect them next week to start promising to donate their organs if they get your vote.
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by mavsreader October 25, 2008 1:19 AM EDT
Scott, where are you? No From the Road Trooper deposition entry? You''ll cover Sarah''s wildly accusatory bits blasting Obama but none on HER?

Who at CBS decided to let the %u201Cnews reporting%u201D department cover that part of Sarah%u2019s day? The omission is noted.
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