Got An Obama E-mail Today

A friend of mine, a conservative African American female in GA, received this email today at her job and forwarded it to me. Aside from the fact that the person that forwarded it to her simply works at the company and they don't interact socially, she asked about the response.

Since this e-mail is beyond the Manchurian Muslim type and attempts to address the voter from an issue standpoint - economics, I thought that I would craft a response.

E-mail below the flip.

Subject: 2009 Taxes

This is not idle e-mail chatter, but actual facts from the  candidates' campaign speeches.  When put into print, it becomes more of a reality...not just idle campaign blabbering.

Proposed Changes In Taxes After 2008 General Election:

CAPITAL GAINS TAX

MCCAIN - 15% (no change)
OBAMA - Increase to: 28%

How does this affect you? If you sell your home and  make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like
to down-size your home or move into a retirement community,
28% of the money you make from your home will goto taxes.
This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting
on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.

DIVIDEND TAX

MCCAIN - 15% (no change)
OBAMA - Increase to: 39.6%

How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama becomes president. The experts predict that 'Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.'

INCOME TAX

MCCAIN - (no changes)
                    Single making 30K - tax $4,500
                    Single making 50K - tax $12,500
                    Single making 75K - tax $18,750
                    Married making 60K- tax $9,000
                    Married making 75K - tax $18,750
                    Married making 125K - tax $31,250

OBAMA - Increase to:
                    Single making 30K - tax $8,400
                    Single making 50K - tax $14,000
                    Single making 75K - tax $23,250
                    Married making 60K - tax $16,800
                    Married making 75K - tax $21,000
                    Married making 125K - tax $38,750

                  How does this affect you? No explanation needed.

INHERITANCE TAX

MCCAIN - 0% (No change, this tax has been repealed)

OBAMA - keep the inheritance tax

How does this affect you? Many families have losT businesses, farms and ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax.

NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY OBAMA

* New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet * New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already) * New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity) * New taxes on retirement accounts, and last but not least....

* New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!

Just think about it before you vote, it is your money!!!

I already forwarded a copy to www.fightthesmears.com. I hadn't gone to the website before now but I thought that it would have all the e-mail smears in order and responses to them all. That isn't the case.

One of the things that stood out was the vote your money line at the end. We have been trying to get individuals in the middle to lower income brackets to vote their pocketbooks since I can remember my mother uttering the phrase a long, long time ago.  Besides, the Republicans in power or no longer conservatives.

Anyone with links, suggestions or help, jump in here.