Comments on: Palin Unleashes New Attack Against Obama On Coal

[dagrandma]

Why does UMWA''s website say this:

"McCain campaign''s last minute distortion of Obama%u2019s coal record an act of desperation"

Who does the UMWA say it is (all caps added by me in one instance):

"The United Mine Workers of America is a growing union with a diverse membership that includes coal miners, CLEAN COAL TECHNICIANS, health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees throughout the United States and Canada."

Sarah Palin needs to go back to Alaska.

[rickwar]

The Real McCain Record on Coal
Think John McCain''s supports coal? Think again:
"I would not disagree that with you that in a perfect world we would like to transition away from coal entirely."
John McCain, at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Sept. 21, 2000.
That was just the beginning.
In January, 2003 McCain wrote and introduced cliimate change legislation into Congress, Senate Bill 139, "The Climate Stewardship Act of 2003." An analysis done by the U.S. Energy Information Administration in May, 2004 said:
"Under S. 139 (McCain''s bill), the reductions in U.S. coal production...are estimated to be 14 percent in 2010 and 78 percent in 2025."

That bill didn''t pass the Congress, thankfully. But McCain wasn''t finished working over the coal industry.
In 2007, McCain introduced yet another climate change bill, Senate Bill 280. This time he took aim at coal production east of the Mississippi River, especially in Appalachia.
An analysis of McCain''s 2007 legislation by the Environmental Protection Agency showed that the bill called for a cut in Appalachian coal production for electricity generation by 30 percent by 2025.

So now that he''s running for President and needs votes wherever he can get them, we''re supposed to believe John McCain really supports coal miners?
Come on.

[Aroleflin]

"While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State. The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstone of taxation and inflation." ---Vladimir Lenin

Resist Obamunism....vote for McCain

[rvrsmtns]

Obama may be the first candidate to successfully: 1)call truth about him a smear 2) characterize any opinion against him as racist and 3)claim any quote he said but now doesn''t fit as "out of context"

[Aroleflin]

"While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State. The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstone of taxation and inflation." ---Vladimir Lenin

Resist Obamunism....vote for McCain

[birdyspice7]

Sarah Palin needs to attack herself about not reading books or knowing anything about her own country''s constitution.

[grumpas]

That''s nice! A much better title would be ''The attack dog attacks''! I am left to assume she is in big coals pocket who wants to continue to pollute????

[hart1960]

I''m old enough to remember when just being labeled a "commie pinko f*g" was considered as an insult and now we have a canidate that is just such as one in the flesh so close to the whitehouse. What really amazes me is that we have such a large number of mental deficients among us who would actually consider voting for this abomination. That a cold war that lasted forty years and had supposedly ended with the fall of the Berlin wall could be turned around into capitultion to global communism by the traitors among us calling themselves the Left''s elite
and the sheer stupidity of their common ideological herd simply dumbfounds me. If you really want those of us on the right to become Nazis then just keep it up and we''ll arrange for the Little Bus to pick you up and take you to camp. Heck, we might even buy you an ice cream cone as long as you don''t try to stick the pointy end in your eye. AGAIN!!!

[lexie1231]

Nancy,

Please provide facts for your claim that the mythical Joe The Plumber, Inc. is paying taxes at rate higher than Proctor & Gamble.

Every corporation in America has a zillion ways to reduce it''s profit on paper (thus being in a lower tax bracket) and/or gets any number of government handouts, effectively reducing its tax burden.

With some creative business planning and accounting, any Joe the Plumber, Inc. could reduce federal income taxes. He could pay himself more, or less, depending on the individual tax rate vs. corporate rate. Why would Joe be a C Corporation anyway? He''d just have to pay income taxes twice. Any smart small businessman forms as an LLC, because he gets limited liability of a corporation but not the tax rate. Joe could buy new equipment and select crazy-fast depreciation schedules. Which means he could write off his tools all at once. He could contribute a lot to his SEP-IRA, thereby reducing his income. The possibilities are endless. Exxon, P&G, GE, they all do this kind of stuff to reduce income. Then, they pay what''s left over to... wait for it ... the OWNERS also known as the SHAREHOLDERS. They pay my mom''s pension, because the teacher''s retirement fund is heavily invested in the S&P 500.

Our tax code is ridiculous. Forbes ''12.

[wogerwabbit]

As usual, lies and omissions as their party platform.