Ummm... OK... again, I'll bite.
Who the hell are you talking about here? Because I know you're not talking about McCain versus Hillary or Obama.
In your question above, you imply that there's a choice, that the two are mutually exclusive, and therein lies the problem.
If you vote for McCain, you more than likely get to keep most of your tax breaks, but you get NO bargaining power, negotiations continue to stagnate for years, and he has NO sympathy for airline pilots or other "middle managers" making more than $80-120k. Yes, I know this first-hand, have talked with him more than once in a trapped environment (Lear flights) back in 2000.
So, you get someone who has NO sympathy for our plight AND, as a result, DOES undermine our efforts to pay our mortgage, feed our family, and save for retirement, as inflation goes up by double digits (when using the old method of computing CPI which included gas and gas-related items) and he gives us NO way to improve our earning power as the cost of living goes up, thereby actually DECREASING our income in terms of spending power.
On the other hand, you get both Obama and Hillary who *MIGHT* be interested in helping us by actually ALLOWING the unions to force end-games as the RLA was designed to do, BUT,,, then you get the repeal of the tax cuts under the Republicans, more taxes to pay for these insane "health care for everyone" plans, and, quite possibly, a relaxed stance on protecting the country from global terror, opening a path for another attack which was DEVASTATING not only to the victims of those attacks, but also to the industry in general.
So, we can negotiate more money with a Democrat in the White House... maybe... then get taxed to death (as if taxes weren't already too high), thereby AGAIN continuing to make it hard for us to pay our mortgage, put food on the table, and save for retirement.
Personally, I don't like any of the available choices. If there was EVER a time for a Ross Perot with a strong military-background V.P. to help with the country's defense, this would be it. He'd win in a landslide with as much as we are disliking the available candidates.
