Who's platform is more like JFK's today?

Question

McCain or Obama

Could you provide some specific platform items that back that up.

Answer 1

McCain:

JFK was a fiscal conservative by today's standards. His beliefs were the same as Reagan's, although liberals hated Reagan, calling his policies, "Reaganomics, "voodoo economics", etc., while holding Kennedy up as the best president ever. Typical

"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now ... Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."

– John F. Kennedy, Nov. 20, 1962, president's news conference

"Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not a reduced – flow of revenues to the federal government."

– John F. Kennedy, Jan. 17, 1963, annual budget message to the Congress, fiscal year 1964

"In today's economy, fiscal prudence and responsibility call for tax reduction even if it temporarily enlarges the federal deficit – why reducing taxes is the best way open to us to increase revenues."

– John F. Kennedy, Jan. 21, 1963, annual message to the Congress: "The Economic Report Of The President"

"It is no contradiction – the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction of individual income tax rates."

– John F. Kennedy, Jan. 21, 1963, annual message to the Congress: "The Economic Report Of The President"

"Our tax system still siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power and reduces the incentive for risk, investment and effort – thereby aborting our recoveries and stifling our national growth rate."

– John F. Kennedy, Jan. 24, 1963, message to Congress on tax reduction and reform, House Doc. 43, 88th Congress, 1st Session

Obama's largest (specific) campaign promise is higher taxes.

Answer 2

Obama..can u imagine these cons serving their country w/o compensation?

Answer 3

McCain. JFK would have most definitely been a conservative by today's standards.

Answer 4

McCain, not even close.

Pro military man.

Answer 5

JFK wouldnt even be a democrat if he was still alive... ever since he was assassinated the democrats have been taken over by extreme left wing socialists. JFK would probably be a republican or libertarian

Answer 6

McCain...JFK was a tax cutter.  A supply sider economically.  The exact opposite of the tax raising Obama.  JFK was also not an appeaser like Obama.