[Vision2020] Candidate issues - The Economy

[Paul Rumelhart]

This is an attempt to get a discussion started on the issues instead of 
all the threads on who associates with who and who is encouraging the 
most emotional responses.

Here are links to the sections on the economy from the Democratic and 
Republican candidates for office:

John McCain:  http://www.johnmccain.com/Issues/jobsforamerica/
Barack Obama:  http://www.barackobama.com/issues/economy/

The biggest difference between the two, in my opinion, from my reading 
is that John McCain is focusing on helping corporations through tax 
breaks to help the economy whereas Barack Obama is focusing on tax 
breaks for the middle class instead.  Both plans have a lot of 
provisions I like - both are looking at different ways that the 
work/family balance can be strengthened, for example.

There's a lot of information there to go through.  Please let us know 
your thoughts, so we can all become more educated on the candidates 
positions.  Also, if others want to tackle third-party positions on the 
topics, please do.  I'm not educated enough about them this time around 
to even know who they all are.

Paul