McCain: No New Taxes (Redux)
By Michael Cooper
The Caucus
New York Times Blog
AURORA, Colo. – Senator John McCain, whose recent suggestion that an increase in the Social Security payroll tax would not be off the table infuriated some fiscal conservatives, sought to reassure people here Wednesday that he opposes tax increases.
“I want to look you in the eye: I will not raise your taxes nor support a tax increase,’’ he said here Wednesday at a town-hall-style meeting at the Wagner Company, a Caterpillar dealer. “I will not do it.’’
Mr. McCain has been attracting criticism from the right ever since he said that “nothing’s off the table” when he was asked Sunday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” whether raising payroll taxes would be an option for Social Security.
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The Caucus
New York Times Blog
AURORA, Colo. – Senator John McCain, whose recent suggestion that an increase in the Social Security payroll tax would not be off the table infuriated some fiscal conservatives, sought to reassure people here Wednesday that he opposes tax increases.
“I want to look you in the eye: I will not raise your taxes nor support a tax increase,’’ he said here Wednesday at a town-hall-style meeting at the Wagner Company, a Caterpillar dealer. “I will not do it.’’
Mr. McCain has been attracting criticism from the right ever since he said that “nothing’s off the table” when he was asked Sunday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” whether raising payroll taxes would be an option for Social Security.
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