John McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” continues to swerve on the road to the White House. In another flip-flop, he told ABC News that he will not propose any new taxes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican John McCain says there will be no new taxes during his administration if he is elected president.
“No new taxes,” the likely GOP presidential nominee said during a taped interview broadcast Sunday.
This is the same John McCain that voted passionately against the 2001 Bush tax cuts.
I regret having to vote against this Conference Report. We had an opportunity to provide much more tax relief to millions of hard-working Americans. I supported a $1.35 trillion tax cut despite my concern that a tax cut of that size would restrict our ability to fund necessary increases in defense spending. But I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle class Americans who most need tax relief.
Although he also voted against the 2003 Bush tax cuts,
it doesn’t end with the tax cut issue.
Immigration too. Another flip-flop.
He introduced the “The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act” in 2005, with Senator Ted Kennedy in 2005. The bill didn’t pass. During his debate in Simi Valley at the Ronald Reagan Library, McCain said he would vote against his own bill.
What I’m wondering is, and you seem to be downplaying that part, at this point, if your original proposal came to a vote in the Senate floor, would you vote for it?
SEN. MCCAIN: It won’t. It won’t. That’s why we went through the debate.
MS. HOOK: I know, but what if it did?
SEN. MCCAIN: No, I would not, because we know what the situation is today. The people want the border secured first. And so to say that that would come to the floor of the Senate, it won’t. We went through various amendments which prevented that ever, that proposal.
It is tough arguing with a flip-flopper. One never knows which side to argue with. Reading on Walden Bookstore.
