Before anyone goes flying off the handle let me say that I still don’t know who I am voting for and this post is one of the reasons. I don’t feel like I can trust either candidate to tell the whole truth.
Like many people I am interested to see what each candidates tax plan would mean for me. So I went to the Obama-Biden Tax Calculator and began playing with some numbers.
I started out with middle range salary, single, saving for retirement with a 300k mortgage. Seems good enough, the calculator shows I would be saving $1300 a year under their tax plan with a tax credit for retirement.
Then I did the same thing for 100k in income.
My savings dropped, but it still showed me what I could expect. Then I went to $200k in income and $250k in income filing jointly.
What happened? Instead of seeing what this person or married couple would lose under Obama (or gain under McCain) I get a message saying “You will probably not get a tax cut under Obama-Biden”. I don’t know the actual number (that is what I was hoping to understand) but I feel this is shady at best. To say that someone filing with these numbers probably won’t get a cut is just wrong. The reality is these people will get taxed more.
I know that. I may be cool with that, I just want to understand how much. I want to be able to make an informed decision, but stuff like this really bothers me. I dug and dug and all I could find was this before I gave up and decided to leave.
I am none of the above.
I realize that this is all marketing (and damn good marketing), but I just want it straight. Cut the crap. Cut the politics. Lay it all on the line and let me see how things may effect me now and in the future.
There are things I like about both candidates, but this is the type of positioning I can stand from neither.
