Holtz-Eakin: McCain may not speak for the McCain campaign on the economy.

Holtz-Eakin: McCain may not speak for the McCain campaign on the economy.

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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain’s chief economic adviser, says the numbers he provided to the TPC aren’t secret—they’re the same ones he provides to anyone who asks. He also disputes the way the study takes suggestions McCain has made on the stump out of context. “This is parsing words out of campaign appearances to an unreasonable degree,” Holtz-Eakin said. “He has certainly I’m sure said things in town halls” that don’t jibe perfectly with his written plan. But that doesn’t mean it’s official.

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John McCain’s tax policy has come under fire in the past, particularly for its dependence on huge revenue windfalls to balance the budget. But now a new study from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center (a joint venture between Brookings and the Urban Institute) suggests there’s another flaw: A rhetoric gap.

On Wednesday, the Tax Policy Center released a report finding large disparities between Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) public economic proposals and his advisers' private assurances. After comparing McCain's public economic policies with the "measured options outlined by his campaign," the center concluded that McCain's public proposals "would cost an additional $2.8 trillion over ten years" above what the campaign's stated policies would cost.

One more reason to 'pass on' McCain, the lies.

McCain has in the last year made so many 'misstatements' about one thing or another that were dismissed as nothing more than mistakes however it is becoming more and more evident that the real issue is honesty and integrity, not to mention competence.

Now I am sure that every politician says one thing and does another to some degree but this is simply too much to take.

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[edit on 25-7-2008 by Animal]