Senator McCain has a plan that will not raise taxes on anyone, lower the corporate tax rate (the highest in the world), freeze all government spending and perform a top-down review of the federal budget and remove wasteful spending. John McCain’s plan will grow our economy, keep families in their homes, create new jobs and cut wasteful government spending.

Problem- Obama’s tax proposals come with a hefty price tag. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, a joint effort of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, estimates that Obama’s tax proposals would reduce projected tax revenue by $2.95 trillion over the next decade, compared to an estimate of what would happen if Bush’s tax cuts were to expire as scheduled at the end of 2010. This does not include the increase in cost of living adjustments people would encounter if Senator Obama had his way with imposing larger tax burdens on corporate America and imposing a windfalls profit tax. So how can Senator Obama pay for his long list of federal programs he wants if there is less tax revenue to pay for it with

The problem: While the plan would help millions of people obtain health insurance, some health analysts say it falls short of universal coverage. The Tax Policy Center says the Obama plan would reduce the number of uninsured by 18 million in 2009, from the current figure of 45 million. That still would leave millions uninsured.

Obama’s plan would let people choose a public, Medicare-like plan or browse a shopping center of sorts for private insurance plans. The National Health Insurance Exchange would create rules and standards for participating private plans, and insurers would have to issue every applicant a policy regardless of pre-existing health conditions. Similar guarantees of coverage have been tried by a handful of states that let residents buy coverage directly from insurers, but it hasn’t always worked. Kentucky and South Dakota dropped their guaranteed-coverage mandates after insurers fled the market and premiums soared for younger, healthier individuals.

Again, Senator Obama’s inexperience shows. Here again we see Senator Obama’s willingness to tax everyone and anything in sight to pay for what he wants, regardless of the consequences of such action to our economy. Senator Obama is wrong on the issue of health care and appears just not able to get it or understand it.

The problem-The next president will take the oath of office in January and confront an immediate crisis: The cost of heating homes is likely to be at record levels. Obama’s promised rebate relies on enactment of a windfall profits tax on big oil companies, which could take months and is by no means sure to get through Congress. The last time the nation had such a tax, from 1980 to 1988, U.S. reliance on foreign oil went up and the costs incurred by the oil companies from this tax was passed on to the consumer at the pump. His longer-term solution, encouraging alternative energy by creating a $150 billion clean energy fund, relies for financing on a program of selling pollution allowances to combat global warming that is even more uncertain. Under political pressure because of high gasoline prices, Obama has reversed course and said he would support limited lifting of a ban on offshore oil drilling.

The result- Obama is wrong on energy and doesn’t have a cohesive plan. Senator McCain will push for offshore drilling, push for new nuclear plants to be built, push for the further investment and development of clean coal technologies and invest and encourage private sector innovation in renewable resources. Senator McCain’s plan pushes both short-term and long-term solutions to the problem of energy independence. His plan calls a whole range of solutions in the energy matrix to finally secure the energy future of America.

The problem: A troop pullout is feasible and conforms roughly to a withdrawal timetable advocated by the Iraqi government. But a 16-month timetable risks shifting responsibility to Iraq’s security forces before they are ready, and it gives the insurgents an explicit target date for waiting out the Americans.

Until forces are pulled from Iraq, there are none to bolster the force in Afghanistan. Balancing needs in those two countries will be an immediate challenge for the next president. There is a broad consensus on the need for more troops to combat an emboldened insurgency in Afghanistan and to train government troops there, but the trick is to accomplish that without giving up gains against the insurgency in Iraq and without robbing combat-weary soldiers and Marines of the rest periods they need. Moreover, Senator Obama has refused to acknowledge that the Petraeus Counterinsurgency Strategy, the “surge”, has worked and accomplished its stated goals, a strategy vocally supported and pushed for by Senator John McCain. Pulling out of Iraq too quickly will undo all of the gains secured by the surge. When it comes to defense and national security, Barack Obama just doesn’t stand up against John McCain.
Caring for veterans and the wounded entails enormous costs, and the scope of the health care requirements for returning troops is not yet fully known. The Pentagon got caught by surprise at the wave of health care demands — physical and mental — triggered by the Iraq war, mainly because it had not anticipated such a long and bloody conflict. John McCain understands the needs of veterans, a veteran himself, and will work to ensure that they receive the care and help they need to live out full and productive lives after returning from the battlefield.