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A little bit too much of a maverick?

Posted on October 08, 2008

John McCain touts his reputation as a maverick, willing to buck his party when it s the right thing to do. Barack Obama says McCain isn t much of a maverick, that he follows President Bush s lead the vast majority of the time.On some aspects of health care, though, McCain really is a maverick. The central example is McCain s plan to tax employer-provided health care benefits. I m sure McCain didn t intend this, but he s bucking pretty much the whole business community on this one. According to the New York Times (Business Cool Toward McCain s Health Coverage Plan) the US Chambe...

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