Cindy Wore Bush's Tax Cut for the Rich

Vanity Fair (h/t Nicole Belle):

Cindy McCain(’s first night of Republican National Convention outfit)

Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000
Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500
Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000
Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000-$25,000
Shoes, designer unknown: $600
Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100

Which just happens to be the exact amount the McCains got from Bush's tax cuts!

According to an analysis by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the McCains have received $313,413 thanks to George Bush’s tax cut.

If John McCain were President, she might have been able to add a bracelet to the ensemble. According to the same study under McCain proposed tax cuts they would have received tax breaks of $367,788.

For the six years Republicans controlled the White House and Congress, hardworking Americans got a $300 tax cut - while Cindy and John got $300,000.

Cindy wore an outfit worth that exact amount so she could laugh at the rest of us.

Update 1: Jonathan Stein lists some things you could buy for the price of Cindy's outfit:

  • Buy the average American home, which costs $266,00.
  • Fund the $5,000 tax credit John McCain proposes giving to working families to help with the annual cost of health care. You could cover 60 families.
  • Buy 30,000 anti-malarial bed nets, including distribution to Africa and education on use for recipients.
  • Pay the tuition of 59 Arizona State University students.
  • Fly a Learjet 60XR for two and a half days at the price of $4,800 an hour (it's the only way to get around Arizona, you know).
  • Provide 6,000 students with school desks taken away by a schoolteacher that Mike Huckabee knows.
  • Give tire gauges to 75,949 Americans hit hard by the price of gas, so they can get better mileage in their cars. Or so you can mock Barack Obama.
  • Send nine community organizers and one part-timer into the streets to work for a better America (hahahaha!).