Analysis of New York Times Article: False Left-Right Paradigm Explained in Obama vs. McCain

Admittedly, Hertzberg's article is persuasive at first blush, as the tricks he uses to convince the reader are misleading but sound plausible. He argues that Republicans see the difference between capitalism and socialism as "the difference between a top marginal income-tax rate of 35 per cent and a top marginal income-tax rate of 39.6 percent," the former being what McCain is proposing and the latter being what Obama is proposing and what it was under President Clinton, a tactic that attempts to reduce the difference between Obama's and McCain's stands to no more than a 4.6% difference in income tax rate (Hertzberg). Through the smoke and mirrors of "elementary Keynesianism," Hertzberg argues that Obama's proposal will not raise taxes even though it entails a hig

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