Today, McCain flip-floppity-flopped by reverting to an earlier promise to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term in 2013, a promise that he’d abandoned as recently as April. No, he’s not reneging on his promise to extend the Bush tax cuts or cut the corporate income tax rate. Instead, McCain claims that since he’ll have basically won the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by 2013, all the money saved from waging the wars will go to eliminating the deficit. From Politico:
The McCain administration would reserve all savings from victory in the Iraq and Afghanistan operations in the fight against Islamic extremists for reducing the deficit. Since all their costs were financed with deficit spending, all their savings must go to deficit reduction.
In other news, McCain has also found a cure for cancer, diabetes, and obesity, all of which will save the US health care system so much money that every American will have health care.
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July 8th, 2008 at 10:17 am
AHhahahaha. Waging wars to cut budget deficits is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard. Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan are right around corner!!! McCain is insane.