# Taxes, the election and you **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 8, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/taxes-the-election-and-you/200054 "2008-10-08T20:00:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/taxes-the-election-and-you/200054/14 "2008-10-09T16:20:57Z")
> [@A BAR FOR EVERYNIGHT OF THE WEEK!?!?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-bar-for-everynight-of-the-week/38165/38): > > Obama is a self-proclaimed socialist and a huge spender. > > I’m not fan of McCain, but he at least has a record of pushing for spending reform and pushing to cut taxes. > > When it comes to taxes, anyone who supports Obama is drinking the kool-aid. > > Sure he might help your situation today, but if you’re honestly that short-sighted, we shouldn’t even be talking. > > Continue to punish the rich, and they will find nice places to live other than here. Sure in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and even a couple years ago that seemed like an idol threat, but today, wake up and smell the rotting economy. America is no longer the land of prosperity. There are better markets elsewhere, and people are pursuing them. there are no small government candidates in this race. At least with Obama, he proposes to do something with our money, other than sink even more of it into defense which McCain will do. And if his foreign policy cred works out and America can be respected once more as a nation, maybe we can safely downsize the defense department budget. We pay a shit-ton of taxes now. There’s no reason why we cannot cut out enough wasteful spending to get ourselves out of this mess. Of course, this all assumes the dollar is worth the paper it’s printed on by the time O’Bama is sworn in. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/taxes-the-election-and-you/200054)._