L’article explique qu’historiquement, un discours porté sur les impôts favorise les républicains, qui cherchent à les baisser pour stimuler l’économie. Obama n’a pas réussi à convaincre certains que les familles gagnant moins de 250 000 USD par an n’auront pas d’impôts supplémentaires à payer s’il est élu.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178517994254919.html
“Americans are ready to rally behind the idea that government can be a part of the solution to our economic woes.”
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080901/editors
DEMOCRATIC ILLINOIS SEN. BARACK OBAMA
* Called for greater government regulation of the U.S. financial system and proposed a new $30 billion economic stimulus plan to help homeowners.
REPUBLICAN ARIZONA SEN. JOHN MCCAIN
* Proposed to spend up to $10 billion to allow some homeowners to trade high-interest, adjustable-rate mortgages for safer, fixed-rate loans.
The stock market tanks. Major banks and investment firms fail. The economy flirts with recession.
Who would President Barack Obama or President John McCain call?
Team Obama is an ideologically diverse group including policy veterans such as Paul Volcker, Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers — people who served Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton at the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and White House. “A very reassuring team,” says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Team McCain is more professionally eclectic, reaching beyond Washington to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who have run companies such as Hewlett-Packard and eBay. It trumpets low taxes and — at least until now — less regulation. “It’s Reagan Republicanism,” says Grover Norquist, president of the anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform.
… is one of my journey’s first steps
