{"id":2672,"date":"2008-10-23T22:17:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T04:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/tax-the-rich\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T22:17:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T04:17:19","slug":"tax-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/tax-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/10\/23\/mccain-tax-plan-mccains\/\">Report: McCain\u2019s tax plan would have saved the McCains $730,000.<\/a><a>\u00bb<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Center for American Progress Action Fund <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/mine\/2008\/06\/tax_returns1.pdf\">calculated<\/a> that Sen. John McCain\u2019s (R-AZ) tax plan would have saved his wife Cindy and himself <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/19\/analyzing-the-candidates\/\">$373,429<\/a>, based on their 2006 tax returns. Since then, McCain has proposed additional tax cuts and Cindy has released another year of tax returns, so CAPAF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogressaction.org\/issues\/2008\/pdf\/mccainobamataxreturns.pdf\">re-calculated<\/a> the McCains\u2019 savings. <strong>Now, if McCain\u2019s tax proposals were enacted, he and his wife would have <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/10\/23\/updated-report\/\"><strong>saved $730,000<\/strong><\/a><strong> over 2006 and 2007.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"McCain Obama Tax Plan\" src=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/mine\/2008\/10\/mccain-obama-tax-plan.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Read the full analysis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogressaction.org\/issues\/2008\/pdf\/mccainobamataxreturns.pdf\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: McCain\u2019s tax plan would have saved the McCains $730,000.\u00bb Earlier this year, the Center for American Progress Action Fund calculated that Sen. John McCain\u2019s (R-AZ) tax plan would have saved his wife Cindy and himself $373,429, based on their 2006 tax returns. Since then, McCain has proposed additional tax cuts and Cindy has released &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/tax-the-rich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tax the Rich<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}