EDINA, Minn. — For a minute there, it almost seemed like Sen. Sam Brownback, a staunch conservative and strong supporter of Sen. John McCain, was going to endorse Sen. Barack Obama.
“I think what Obama has tapped into is what Reagan did so well and that’s just the optimism and hope of the American public,” he told a room full of Kansas delegates who were eating plates full of fruit and muffins this morning. “His speeches, when I watch him, I like him.”
But then the inevitable came. “When I dig in underneath, I’m like ‘but that isn’t the way to do it.”
“I think we have to have that hope and optimism,” he told the Republicans. “But it’s not through more government bureaucracy. It’s through more families, it’s through more faith, it’s through more freedoms. That’s our best way on forward.”
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Brownback, representing Kansan values, should consider the policies of the two candidates carefully. The economic policies of his party do not represent Kansas. The Reagan, Bush and Bush administrations ran up record deficits that are in contrast to the fiscal conservatism of most Kansans. The Tax Policy Institute (www.taxpolicycenter.org) notes that McCain’s tax plan, which includes tax cuts across the board, will increase the deficit by 1 trillion dollars. In contrast, Obama’s plan reduces taxes to a greater extent on lower income earners, balancing those cuts with increased taxes on the highest income brackets (above $600,000). His plan raises 300 billion dollars that will help pay off our debt. (for graphic see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/09/ST2008060900950.html)
As you can see, Obama’s plan has
-tax cuts for average Americans
-cuts larger than McCain’s
-income to offset those tax cuts
-raises $300 billion to offset the record-setting deficits accumulated over the last 8 years.