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Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 in campaign Web site >>Details
"98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000" and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obama's plan.
Barack Obama on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 in Hempstead, N.Y. >>Details
John McCain "is proposing tax cuts that would give the average Fortune 500 CEO an additional $700,000 in tax cuts."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn. >>Details
"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world."
Barack Obama on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in a debate in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
Says that under his tax plan, seniors making less than $50,000 per year won't pay any income taxes.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 in a TV ad. >>Details
"My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
Under Obama's tax plan, "95 percent of you will get a tax cut."
Barack Obama on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
John McCain wants to "give oil companies another $4-billion" in tax breaks.
Barack Obama on Friday, September 26th, 2008 in Oxford, Miss. >>Details
Obama says McCain went to Bermuda and "pledged to protect tax breaks for American corporations that hide their profits offshore."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
"Grateful insurance company executives and their lobbyists" from Bermuda gave McCain $50,000.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
Obama's tax plan cuts taxes "for 95 percent of all working families."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 in Elko, Nev. >>Details
John McCain offers "billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours."
Barack Obama on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"Sen. McCain's economic plan gives nearly $4-billion in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to more than 100-million middle-class families."
Barack Obama on Friday, July 18th, 2008 in a statement e-mailed to reporters. >>Details
Barack Obama "cut taxes for working families."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
Barack Obama on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
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