Very ill informed/ignorant voter here.
Which candidate will save me, someone who makes around 40k a year the most money?
neither. And being british I am neither democrat nor republican and in british political terms would be an independant. Anyone except the top two, really.
Either party which tells you everything will be fine if they are elected is lying. someone has to pay and pay and pay to deal with the current crisis. Right now we are still in a situation where the government is borrowing to try to keep the show going untill the economy picks up. As soon as it does, taxes must rise. Must. The long term trends in growth have been that it is falling, things have been propped up by borrowing for 10 years, but eventually the bill falls due. The best hope is that the government can borrow enough to ride out the worst. If it cannot, then you aint seen nothing yet. Frankly, it would help if taxes were higher now, because it seems a pretty close call whether the US will run out of credit or not, and some extra income right now could make the difference. Neither side is saying they will put up taxes now, though I hear there is this legislative wall heading towards everyone right now where they are going to have to face reality and raise taxes.
So in your position, I suggest you look at each candidate and decide which group they will give most of the bill to. because the bill is coming. In my opinion, Romney would go easy on big business and thus bill small tax payers more, Obama would tend to do the opposite, but the diffrence beyween them in the end will be dictated by what is politically possible, and that might not be much difference at all.
Im a democrat but I am voting for Romney this time because of the economy. Romeny is going to give you a 20% tax cut.
not a hope in hell