uncle joel's prognostication corner

[candid]

Assuming I haven't deleted the blog by then, we can check back in four years and see how right or wrong I was.

Terrible Things Obama Will Do That McCain Would Not Have Done* Taxes on me

Comments

[irrationalrobot]

Obama will do, McCain would have not
I expect that my marginal rates will go up and that he will raise/eliminate the cap on Social Security taxes.

Yep, and McCain would've done that too. See also McCain's "We all know how to fix Social Security... we did it in 1982..."

"Fairness" Doctrine

I doubt that one will happen (there may be rumblings about it and excuses about why it doesn't happen), but you're right, McCain wouldn't have even tried.

Congress and Obama will pass Card Check (and other) legislation that will dramatically strengthen the power of unions. More jobs will end up sent overseas as a result.

Yep, and that sucks. :(

Will expand federal funding of "faith-based" programs, with a bias toward funding left-wing programs.
What counts as a left wing program? Signature gathering for the environment (yep), job training (maybe), or food?

Obama will do, so would have McCain
Obama and the Congress will work to expand Social Security benefits.I don't think either of them will. On the contrary, I'm betting on a phased in

SCOTUS

[nyuanshin]

"I'm not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts."
-- Barack Obama

[prock]

I'm amused by the fact that most of your predicitons about the next administration were implemented by the prior administration.

[candid]

A bunch of them are. I included them as predictions to see how much "change" he actually brings.

[ex_ben]

"No substantial healthcare reform will take place. Seriously."

d'oh.

[candid]

"Well, folks, when you're right 52% of the time, you're wrong 48% of the time."