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 BARACK OBAMA |
 JOHN MCCAIN |
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- Several tax increases for highest-income earners
- Tax cuts for low- and middle- income earners and many other specific groups
- 5-minute filing for taxpayers who do not itemize
- Has not pledged to balance budget
- Spending increases for healthcare, energy, military
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- No tax increases, make Bush cuts permanent
- Further tax cuts for people with dependents, businesses, estates
- Create an optional flat income tax
- Balance the budget by 2013
- Cut earmarks, subsidies, other unspecified areas
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- "Fast-track authority" with labor and environmental standards
- Renegotiate NAFTA to include those standards
- Trade adjustment aid, tax cuts for businesses keeping American jobs
- Only give subsidies to small farms
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- Give president "fast-track authority" for trade deals
- Supports NAFTA and other trade deals
- Unemployment insurance program should retrain displaced workers
- Opposes most tariffs and subsidies
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- Close corporate tax loopholes
- $10 billion for homeowners from penalties on lenders
- Shareholder advisory vote on CEO pay
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- Lower corporate tax from 35% to 25%
- Help responsible homeowners to trade in mortgages
- Shareholder approval of CEO pay
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- Withdraw all combat brigades during first 16 months in office
- Temporarily keep a much smaller "residual" force there to fight terrorists, but no permanent bases
- Opposed going to war with Iraq in 2002
- Opposed the troop surge
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- Withdrawal if Iraq is secure, no timetables
- Would support a long-term non-combat troop presence in Iraq, unless Iraqis want us to leave
- Supported going to war with Iraq in 2002
- Believes our initial strategy in Iraq was a failure, but that the troop surge is succeeding
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- No torture, same standards for CIA and military
- Shut down Gitmo, try detainees in civilian courts
- Opposes Bush wiretapping, pro-FISA compromise
- Fight al Qaeda in Pakistan
- Add 7,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan by moving some out of Iraq
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- No torture, but let CIA use harsher techniques
- Shut down Guantanamo, try detainees in military courts
- Bush warrantless wiretapping program was legal
- Pakistan a friend, supports Musharraf
- NATO should send more troops to Afghanistan
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- No offshore oil drilling, subsidize clean coal
- Subsidize corn ethanol, keep tariff on imported sugar ethanol
- Large subsidies for renewable energy research
- Consider constructing more nuclear plants
- Double fuel economy standards within 18 years
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- More domestic oil drilling, subsidize clean coal
- End corn ethanol subsidies, lower tariff on imported sugar ethanol
- Stable tax breaks, not subsidies, for wind and solar
- Construct 45 new nuclear plants
- Enforce existing fuel economy standards
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- Seeks universal coverage through federal subsidies
- Mandates that insurers cover all who apply
- Allow private plans, but monitor them for fairness
- Invest in technology, regulate insurance and drug company profits
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- End tax exemption for employer-based insurance
- Create healthcare tax credit to help people pay for private or employer-based insurance
- Thinks individual responsibility will lower costs
- Would work with state governments to cover uninsured groups
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- Increase border security, including some fencing
- Create a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants here now who meet certain conditions
- Mixed feelings about guest worker programs
- Do not increase job-based immigration at expense of family reunification
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- Increase border security before other reforms
- Then, create a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants here now who meet certain conditions
- Supports guest worker programs
- More job-based immigration, less family reunification
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- More funding to help schools meet testing standards
- More pay for teachers who mentor & perform well
- Supports charter schools, but not vouchers
- Tuition tax credit for all college students
- Allow race-based affirmative action for colleges
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- Let parents move kids out of failing schools
- Accountability in teacher pay: more for good performance, less for bad
- Supports charter schools and vouchers
- Target federal financial aid to needy students
- Opposes race-based affirmative action for colleges
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- Social Security funding problem is real but manageable
- Fund by raising payroll tax on people making over $250,000 a year
- Opposes personal accounts and privatization
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- Current Social Security system is broken and unsustainable
- Do not reduce benefits for current retirees, reduce future benefit growth to fund system
- Add voluntary personal accounts with which young workers can invest money
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- Supports Roe v. Wade & Freedom of Choice Act
- Allow partial-birth abortion bans with expanded exemptions for health of mother
- Pregnancy prevention through contraceptives and comprehensive sex ed
- Federally fund embryonic stem cell research
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- Amend constitution to ban abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and risk to mother's life
- Ban partial-birth abortion
- Pregnancy prevention through adoption and abstinence-only sex ed
- Federally fund embryonic stem cell research
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- Some restrictions on certain types of guns
- Supports death penalty in more limited circumstances
- Ease some drug sentencing requirements
- Undecided on medical marijuana
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- Do not restrict guns for law-abiding adults
- Keep death penalty as it is now used
- Tough drug sentencing except for first-time users
- No medical marijuana
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- Do not reverse state court decisions that legalize gay marriage
- Supports national civil union legislation
- End "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
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- State voters, not courts, should decide on gay marriage
- Leave decisions on civil unions to states
- Continue "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
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- Proposes several government initiatives to create jobs
- Renew support for faith-based initiatives office
- Create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund
- Expand Earned Income Tax Credit and index minimum wage to inflation
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- Favors tax measures to encourage small businesses
- Wants charities and community groups to play big anti-poverty role, in place of government
- Create task force on unfair lending practices
- Double the tax exemption for dependents, lowering taxes for all, especially the low-income
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