Economists for Obama

• Obama: Tax cuts for 95% of working families
• McCain: NO tax cut for 100 million Americans
• Most would get a larger tax cut from Obama

The numbers in the graph are from the highly respected, non-partisan Tax Policy Center (see their full report or executive summary (PDF) ). For details of the Obama tax proposals, see this article by his advisers or Obama's site. Here is some of our commentary on McCain's tax plan.

“I’ve never worked with a campaign that was more interested in what the research shows.”

James Heckman, Nobel Laureate
University of Chicago

NYT, August 20, 2008