I know that during his statement, he was also making some suggestions that my plan would raise taxes on the middle class. That is absolutely not the case. And everybody who has looked at it has said that in fact my tax cuts are three times more likely to go to the middle class than John McCain's.
Barack Obama defends his tax plan against John McCain's claims, asserting that his tax cuts benefit the middle class more than McCain's.
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People need to “rediscover what’s the story we tell about how we’re going to live together, and see each other, and recognise each other, and disagree, and yet, still care for each other”.
I think when we act on that basis, it doesn't always work out, but over time things do get better.
If I had a blame pie for why politics is so polarised and why we're seeing a rise of populism in many places, it's because of that information that is going into our brains every day.
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