The Associated Press’ Libby Quaid is preaching the liberal like that one must “pay for” tax cuts, as if they were a governmental expense: McCain seeks costly tax cuts, but vague on paying for them.

Republican John McCain is making promises that would cost billions of taxpayer dollars, yet he is vague about how he would pay for them.

McCain is handing around a campaign grab bag of goodies. There are little treats like a summer gas-tax holiday and new mortgages for struggling homeowners, and there are big plums like tax breaks for corporations and families with children.

Wrong. The money belongs to the taxpayers, not to the government, and the government must pay for government spending, not for taking less money from those who earn it. A tax cut is not part of a “bag of goodies.”

This kind of reporting is vile.