“[McCain] made an attack, that his campaign has been making for weeks, saying that Obama’s campaign was launched in the living room of William Ayers, of the Weather Underground. That’s not true. Obama says his campaign was launched at a Ramada hotel, there were several coffees, right about that same time that summer one was held in Ayers’ house, but it isn’t even clear it was specifically for Obama.” [ABC News, 10/15/08]
John McCain talked a lot about ‘Joe the plumber’ during the third presidential debate, saying Joe is an example of a small business owner who would not do well under Barack Obama’s policies…But generally, Obama does not fine ’small businesses.’ They are specifically exempt. We rate McCain’s claim False.” [Politifact, 10/15/08: http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/802/]
“John McCain made two assertions on corporate taxes, one that small businesses pay 50 percent of the taxes and the other that U.S. corporations are among the highest taxed in the world. Both are wrong. All corporate income taxes–including giant corporations and the smallest of businesses–account for only about 14 percent of federal revenues raised [...]