Hillary's new attack mailer in Nevada with more lies about Obama.. [View All]

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/A_tax_attack.html#comments

As in New Hampshire, Clinton has a mailer out in Nevada calling Obama's plan to raise the cap on social security payroll tax "a trillion dollar tax increase." The rhetoric is pretty straightforwardly conservative, taking an anti-tax line on something that would -- in the various forms it's been proposed -- largely affect a relatively high-income minority.

The Obama campaign released it to reporters, and the candidate himself pushed back.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/obama-slams-cli.html

Obama Slams Clinton for Nevada Mailer
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Share January 16, 2008 4:18 PM

ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Barack Obama slammed Sen. Hillary Clinton Wednesday for sending out fliers to Navadans that he said misstates his health care plan and position on social security.

The Obama campaign supplied reporters with a copy of the Clinton campaign mailer, that reads: "We need a President that will help hard working families keep more of what they earn."....

"Some of you may have been getting these, a flier lately from Senator Clinton’s camp that says that they are gonna solve Social Security just by showing fiscal responsibility and 'Obama is going to initiate a trillion dollar tax cut on hard working families,'", Obama told the crowd, "I want to be clear about what the social security debate is ... we don't have an immediate crisis, but we do have a long term problem."

Obama said his plan would bolster social security coffers by removing the current cap on the very highest of earners -- not a general tax raise implied by the Clinton mailer.



By Ben Smith 04:59 PM