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Paul Krugman states the obvious about John McCain’s tax policy today, but it is a truth worth stating. If truth be told, the McCain tax plan doesn’t seem to embody any coherent policy agenda. Instead, it looks like a giant exercise in pandering — an attempt to mollify the G.O.P.’s right wing, and never mind […]

Paul Krugman states the obvious about John McCain’s tax policy today, but it is a truth worth stating.

If truth be told, the McCain tax plan doesn’t seem to embody any coherent policy agenda. Instead, it looks like a giant exercise in pandering — an attempt to mollify the G.O.P.’s right wing, and never mind if it makes any sense.

The impression that Mr. McCain’s tax talk is all about pandering is reinforced by his proposal for a summer gas tax holiday — a measure that would, in fact, do little to help consumers, although it would boost oil industry profits.

More and more, Mr. McCain sounds like a man who will say anything to become president.

Of course. McCain knows that his tax policy will die a quick death before a Democratic congress, so he can say what he pleases.

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