Comments on: SAS student Alice Su critiques John McCain’s tax plan

By: Michael Daily

Michael Daily — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:49:31 +0000

In reality, it does not matter if McCain knows anything about economics or not. I mean as people have said, he has no control over the fed, and I doubt he is going to be making very many original economic policies. In fact, I’m pretty sure his advisers just told him what to make his economic plan. And also like David said, the public does not really care either.

By: Drew Venkatraman

Drew Venkatraman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:38:54 +0000

I agree. I think McCain is just swaying his votes, and thats what he needs to do. ALthough it does not seem smart to us, to many in America this means more money now. and that is what they care about. I think that this is a pretty ok plan, as far as politics is concerned. and it could get him elected.

By: Jason Welker

Jason Welker — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:27:12 +0000

@ElainLung: Amen to that! If all Americans were to take Econ 101 or AP Econ, what would I have to blog about?!

By: ElaineLung

ElaineLung — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:13:15 +0000

It’s times like these when I thank the big deity in the sky for keeping the Fed away from the reaching claws of Mr. Politician. Forgive me for being a bit presumptuous, but it seems a short course in rudimentary economics is all that’s required to steer some Americans away from the shortsightedness that is “MORE TAX CUTS YAY!” None of us are real economists with paying jobs, and most of us have only been familiar with it over the past year — could it be time to enroll much of the American public in Economics 101 or even AP? C’mon, Americans are provided with education. How ’bout we use it?

Also, orz, Alice.

By: optional.xu

optional.xu — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:51:27 +0000

since when has politics ever had to make sense… the general populace doesnt have that ability to think 3, 4, or 5 steps ahead. to them, more money = good, less money = bad. mccain isnt appealing to the economics crowd, i think hes just going for the down-to-earth citizen who probably doesnt have the luxury of taking an economics course.

as bush has shown, the republicans clearly arent running a fiscally sound economics scheme.

By: James Tsao

James Tsao — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:37:34 +0000

Alice is not a senior! haha. Anyways, I can see the logical fallacies of McCain’s proposals that Alice has pointed out here. It seems that many policies that McCain strives to carry out are policies that can earn the likings of his voters. However, many of these policies produce effects that offsets one another, and therefore it may seem like McCain is using politics rather than sound economic policy to earn support.