George Allen is claming, once again with absolutely ZERO evidence, that Jim Webb is in favor of tax increases. In fact, Jim Webb's two major tax proposals of this campaign have been: 1) to provide veterans who have served honorably with a 5% income tax CREDIT; and 2) to slap a windfall profits tax on Big Oil companies, who are raking in profits at an all-time record pace while the rest of us pay the price. Webb wisely wants to use that revenue to develop renewable energy sources, which we desperately need to get off our "oil addiction," as George W. Bush himself calls it (but as Bush and Allen do absolutely nothing to fix, of course).
Now, what about George Allen? Well, according to a piece by the DSCC issued back in May:
George Bush will sign a tax bill supported by George Allen today that will raise taxes on average Virginia families in order to cut taxes for the oil and gas industry. The tax hikes are the result of AllenGÇÖs vote to, among other things, eliminate the college tuition tax deduction relied on by 104,000 students in Virginia.[...]
Thanks to George AllenGÇÖs vote and George BushGÇÖs signature, thousands of middle class Virginians will no longer be able to rely on a number of tax breaks. By prioritizing tax cuts that arenGÇÖt due to expire until 2009, Allen left no room for a range of other expiring or expired middle class tax cuts, including tuition relief, cuts for teachers who buy supplies out of their own pockets for their classrooms and incentives to put money into retirement accounts.
That's right, George Allen helped eliminate:
*Tuition Deduction That More Than 104,000 Virginia Students Benefited From in 2003.
*Retirement SaverGÇÖs Tax Credits That Benefited More Than 140,000 Virginians in 2003.
*Educator Expenses Deduction That Benefited More Than 90,000 Virginia Teachers in 2003.
And let's not even get into the fact that George Allen has participated in a massive, multi-TRILLION dollar tax increase on young people and generations to come - should we call it a "Birth Tax?" - by running up a huge national debt that will have to be paid off in future years either through massively increased taxes, radically reduced services, or both.
So, there you have it. George Allen cuts taxes for the top 1% of Americans, but raises them sharply for everyone else, especially children and future generations. Thanks a lot, George!
Lowell Feld is Netroots Coordinator for the Jim Webb for US Senate Campaign. The ideas expressed here belong to Lowell Feld alone, and do not represent those of Jim Webb, his advisors, staff, or supporters.
Hope this makes it to a TV ad or robocall.
Notice the folks surrounding the Decider in the photo above: uniformly smug white males of a certain age. You know, the only folks who count in Bush's America.
Yeah yeah George...we know you....You were bragging about being the one who would lower taxes for all of us at your portsmouth press conference also...
Hmmm...sounds like a good LTE.....buzz...buzz...mosquito
wait.. am I missing something?
I thought he was a conservative?
Or maybe he's just a lying politician.
Oh. that's it.