Subject: [big campaign] FW: From The Wonkroom... McCain Flip-Flops On The Estate Tax
From: "Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:30:44 -0400
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New from the Wonk Room -- McCain goes from "I oppose the rich passing on
fortunes" in 2005 to saying the estate tax is on of the "most unfair tax
laws on the books" today at NFIB.  

We've sent this to our lists but anything folks can do to help get this
out there would be appreciated.  Would be fun to see him try to
reconcile those two stands. 
 
Thanks,
AJ
 
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Subject: From The Wonkroom... McCain Flip-Flops On The Estate Tax

 
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For Immediate Release
June 10, 2008

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McCain Flip-Flops On The Estate Tax
<http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/10/estate-tax-flip/> >

Our guest bloggers are Center for American Progress Action Fund fellows
Robert Gordon
<http://www.americanprogress.org/experts/GordonRobert.html>  and James
Kvaal <http://www.americanprogress.org/aboutus/staff/KvaalJames.html> .

Sen. John McCain, in September 2005
<http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2005/09/05/mccain_and_t
axes> :

	I follow the course of a great Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, who
talked about the malefactors of great wealth and gave us the estate tax.
I oppose the rich passing on fortunes.

McCain today
<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/the-early-word-mccains-tu
rn-on-the-economy/> :

	The estate tax is one of the most unfair tax laws on the books.

McCain also continues to claim that full repeal of the Alternative
Minimum Tax will be a tax cut for "25 million middle-class families."
This is false. Compared to existing policy - the comparison McCain
always makes when he tallies up the cost of his program - McCain's
proposal will provide a tax break for fewer than 3.6 million taxpayers
<http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/16/nyt-taxes/> , and nearly
half of them make more than $500,000 a year.

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