Slog - Comments on Calculate Your Tax Cut http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut This has probably been on Slog a bunch already--I may have posted it myself--but not enough people know it exists. You go here, you select (roughly) how much you make in a year and it tells you what your tax cut would be under Obama's tax plan compared to what it would be under McCain's plan. This is a great link to send to your friends in Arizona, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico, and Virginia. UPDATE: For the record, the Tax Policy Center, which is credited for the information that created the calculator, didn't create the calculator. The Obama... Copyright 2008 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:20:29 -0800 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:56:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elenchos Oh, yeah, already posted for sure. I remember it well. I flamed David Wright. David Wright flamed me. I flamed David Wright. And so on.

Good times.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188249 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188249 2008 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:36:03 -0800 Comment by beatgrl I saw Obama's tax cut calculator at the top of my dad's favorite website, the Drudge report(!)
a couple days ago.

So I entered my dad's family's info and it said he would not get a tax cut from Obama. Bummer.

]]> beatgrl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188251 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188251 2008 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:38:11 -0800 Comment by beatgrl But the link you just posted gives him a $5164 cut from Obama and $7087 from McCain.

]]> beatgrl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188254 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188254 2008 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:41:02 -0800 Comment by John Bailo Everyone will get a tax cut under Obama -- if elected, he'll destroy the economy and everyone will be out of work.

Or, you can keep the McCain Recovery Rolling :

1. $2 a gallon gas
2. Stock market recovery
3. Cheap real estate

Every thing we need to build the New Middle Class.

Don't let the elitist spawn of a bank vice president, who prepped in Hawaii, take it all away from you.

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188288 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188288 2008 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:10:38 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle If by Middle Class you mean the people formerly known as the Rich, then, yeah, JB.

Otherwise, nuh uh.

Even the WSJ admits that only those who are rich will get a tax cut under McSame.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188311 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188311 2008 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:24:07 -0800 Comment by i love my hourlong commute The tax calculator I've seen and used elsewhere allows for pre-tax retirement account deductions; and supplies a checkbox if the taxpayer is blind, and an input field rather than a drop down box for adjusted gross income. The tax credit difference was greater, too: $1700 difference.

]]> i love my hourlong commute http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188521 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188521 2008 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:36:52 -0800 Comment by Furcifer The surprising part of the story is how Obama wants to make the cap gains tax rate progressive. Republicans have long used this issue to drive a wedge between modest-income retirees and the rest of the middle class, encouraging the former to vote with the ultra-wealthy "investor class" against their own interests.

]]> Furcifer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188873 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/calculate_your_tax_cut#c1188873 2008 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:56:35 -0800