Obama's proposed changes in taxes 

after 2008 General election:

CAPITAL GAINS TAX

MCCAIN

0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples) McCain does not 

propose any change in existing home sales income tax.

OBAMA

28% on profit from ALL home sales

How does this affect you?

If you sell your home and make a profit, you will 20pay 28% of your gain on taxes.

If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.

DIVIDEND TAX

(this applies to ALL Dividends, even on saving accounts, and other type investments that pays you a dividend)

MCCAIN 15% (no change)

OBAMA 39.6%

How will this affect you?


If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts (like 401(k) Plans), or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama become president. The experts predict that higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.

INCOME TAX

MCCAIN (no changes)

Single making 30K - tax $4,500

Single making 50K - tax $12,500

Single making 75K - tax $18,750

Married making 60K- tax $9,000

Married making 75K - tax $18,750

Married making 125K - tax $31,250

OBAMA

(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)

Single making 30K - tax $8,400

Single making 50K - tax $14,000

Single making 75K - tax $23,250

Married making 60K - tax $16,800

Married making 75K - tax $21,000

Married making 125K - tax $38,750

Under Obama your taxes will more than double!

How does this affect you? No explanation needed. This is pretty straight forward.

INHERITANCE TAX

MCCAIN 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)

OBAMA Restore the inheritance tax

How does this affect you? 

Many families have lost businesses, farms and ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will only lose them to these taxes.

NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY OBAMA

• New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet
• New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already)
• New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity)
• New taxes on retirement accounts and last but not least....
• New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!
  

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I can't say that this is absolutely correct, nor can I say it's not. It came to me in email purportedly from a Wachovia officer. Of course, you know what happened to Wachovia. So, being that it came in email, and perhaps from an officer at a failed bank, you would be best served checked these claims and figures.

As someone in another part of the email said, Snopes claims this as false, but Obama changes the premise of this tax plan quite often, so Snopes can be forgiven for getting it wrong.

As I always say, don't take anything you see on this site as gospel. You are responsible for checking it out for yourself. If you find something to add to it, to prove it's veracity, or to disprove it, please let me know.