Factcheck.org - Fact checking the VP Debate

Thought this might be of interest to voters.

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Palin's False Tax Claims


Palin repeated a false claim about Barack Obama's tax proposal:

Palin: Barack Obama even supported increasing taxes as late as last year for those families making only $42,000 a year. That's a lot of middle income average American families to increase taxes on them. I think that is the way to kill jobs and to continue to harm our economy.

Jeez get your facts straight lady!!!!

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You could go tit for tat all day on these, but the fact is they BOTH made quite a few inaccurate statements.

You can't post one, without posting the other....

"Biden wrongly claimed that McCain “voted the exact same way” as Obama on the budget bill that contained an increase on singles making as little as $42,000 a year. McCain voted against it. Biden was referring to an amendment that didn't address taxes at that income level."

Not to mention:

"Biden was correct only to the extent that the resolution Obama supported would not by itself have increased taxes; it was a vote on a budget resolution that set revenue and spending targets. But he's wrong to say McCain voted the same way. The Obama campaign attempted to justify Biden's remark by pointing to a different vote, on a Senate amendment, that took place March 13. The amendment passed 99-1, with only Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold dissenting. It would have preserved some of Bush's tax cuts for lower-income people. The vote on the budget resolution in question, however, came in the wee hours of March 14 and was a mostly party-line tally, 51-44, with Obama in favor and McCain not voting"

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agreed

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Thanks for posting this, Kara....They BOTH lie, what a surprise, huh? I guess Biden isn't perfect, either.....

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I thought this said "fatcheck.org". I was thinking it was a link to unclaimed funds

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honestly, there weren't huge zingers (that weren't cleared up front and center) on either side.

it could have been WAYYYY worse (like some of their respective ad campaigns )

I will say though, that I am pretty sure when talking about the tax bill in question, Biden mentioned he was speaking of the amendment.

they both did well.