Personal Finance Hard Truth Week in Review – It’s Almost Over Edition

The campaign is in its final days.  I expect we will have six months or so before the next group of presidential wannabes begins making noises about 2012.

My favorite political ad this week is from the Obama campaign.  It encourages us to visit a website that includes their amazing tax saving calculator.  Apparently, you input your income and other data and it tells you how much money President Obama is going to give you.  McCain has his own plan for giving out money but apparently no calculator for us to use.   That leaves us to guess about how much money we are being promised but won’t actually receive. Read more