A day after Barack Obama updated his economic plan, John McCain detailed tax cuts for seniors and reductions to capital gains for investors.
Many of McCain's proposals-- like Obama's-- are aimed at helping older Americans who have seen their retirement accounts devastated in the recent stock market gyrations. The reality is that neither plan may be possible to enact-- given the current state of the U.S. economy.
Jon Decker reports.SOUNDBITES: John McCain, presidential candidate
Barack Obama, presidential candidate
Rea Hederman, Assistant Director of the Center for Data Analysis - the Heritage Foundation