Morally Bankrupt Bush also has Dyscalculia

[BaliBabyDoc]

And it is a real quote, something Bush said during the course of a 15 February 2000 Republican debate (moderated by CNN host Larry King) in Columbia, South Carolina, between Texas Governor George W. Bush, Senator John McCain of Arizona, and former Reagan administration official Ambassador Alan Keyes:

The difference between our plans is, I know whose money it is we're dealing with. We're dealing with the government -- we're dealing with the people's money, not the government's money. And I want to give people their money back.

And if you're going to have a tax cut, everybody ought to have a tax cut. This kind of Washington, D.C., view about targeted tax cuts is tax cuts driven by polls and focus groups. If you pay taxes in America, you ought to get a tax cut.

Under my plan, if you're a family of four in South Carolina, making $50,000, you get 50-percent tax cut. I've reduced the lower rate from 15 percent to 10 percent, which does this -- and this is important. There are people on the outskirts of poverty, like single moms who are working the toughest job in America. If she has two kids, and making $22,000, for every additional dollar she earns, she pays a higher marginal rate on her taxes than someone making $200,000.

You bet I cut the taxes at the top. That encourages entrepreneurship. What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

Obviously, the glaring problem is the lack of simple arithmetic skills. But I think the comments that follow are even more troubling. Bush talks about the tax burden on the working poor yet he did nothing to reduce their taxes (FICA). Even worse, the Bushies just advised corporations on how to navigate a reduction in overtime pay to low wage workers. Bush isn't making the American pie higher . . . much of the pie is going overseas while American workers are left to do the dishes.

What I don't understand is Bush says targeted tax cuts are wrong . . . everybody in America should get a tax cut. Then he says cutting taxes at the top encourages entrepreneurship . . . as if somehow being upper income means you have a special right to tax cuts. Dividend tax cuts, capital gains tax cuts, and reducing the estate tax . . . are targeted tax cuts.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

...is this good or bad? I didn't get the memo this morning, so not sure if the sky is falling or not.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Try some KA-PEC

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
Try some KA-PEC

nooooooo wayyyyyyy; isn't that made by those "evil corporations" you hate, like Pfizer? I heard they are baaaaaaaadddddddddd (last election's memo).

 

[CaptnKirk]

Observation:
Many here need to gargle with that.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

nooooooo wayyyyyyy; isn't that made by those "evil corporations" you hate, like Pfizer? I heard they are baaaaaaaadddddddddd (last election's memo).

Well I was about to say NO because Pharmacia owns Kaopectate . . . then I picked up my PDA and remembered that the Evil Empire . . . yes that's Pfizer . . . recently acquired Pharmacia while Procter and Gamble owns Pepto-Bismol.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc

nooooooo wayyyyyyy; isn't that made by those "evil corporations" you hate, like Pfizer? I heard they are baaaaaaaadddddddddd (last election's memo).

Well I was about to say NO because Pharmacia owns Kaopectate . . . then I picked up my PDA and remembered that the Evil Empire . . . yes that's Pfizer . . . recently acquired Pharmacia while Procter and Gamble owns Pepto-Bismol.

Apology accepted.

 

[chess9]

BBD:

That won't get the lead out, or the bubble gum....

-Robert

 

[Corn]

Bush talks about the tax burden on the working poor yet he did nothing to reduce their taxes (FICA).

One of your bolded quotes from GWB (which is also current tax law) shows evidence of a 50% reduction of the lowest tax bracket (and shuffling to the positive. That is not "nothing". (FICA) isn't a "tax" (even though that's how it's treated), it is a retirement program used to suplement income and medical costs.

Of course if Bush did actually lower FICA "tax" on the poor, the morally bankrupt hand wringers like BBD would scream that Bush hates old people and is set to destroy Social Security.

For once I would love to see our "wealthy" Republican hating liberals lead by example. If you feel your taxes are too low, send the government a little bonus. After all, don't you believe that the government can do a much better job at redistributing your money to the benefit of the poor.....than say....a local private charity? Guvvy knows best so chop chop!!! Take action already, give 'till it hurts BBD, the poor need your support!