Campaign math doesn't add up

Senator Obama's presidential campaign ads claim that Senator McCain's tax plan would provide "zero" tax relief for 101 middle class families, then assert that Senator Obama's plan would provide three times more tax relief for them than Senator McCain's.

I'm not a math wizard, but doesn't three times zero equal zero? It seems the ad is saying that Obama's tax plan will provide three times more of nothing than McCain's tax plan.

That's what I thought Obama's plan would provide anyway.

Fred Wisniewski

Mount Prospect