Whose Tax Cuts Were They Anyway? - Kerry Claims, Then Trashes Bush's Tax Cuts

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[Hon]

Behold the transcript from a Democrat debate last fall:

Monday, October 27, 2003; 12:30 AM

Following is the transcript of the Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and Fox News.

SPEAKERS: 
MODERATOR: Gwen Ifill, PBS 
QUESTIONERS: Carl Cameron, Fox News Channel ,
Huel Perkins, Detroit WJBK TV Fox 2 News Anchor 

CANDIDATES: General Wesley Clark (Ret.)
Former Governor Howard Dean (VT)
U.S. Senator John Edwards (NC)
U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt (MO)
U.S. Senator John F. Kerry (MA)
U.S. REP. Dennis Kucinich (OH)
U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (CT)
Former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun (IL)
The Reverand Al Sharpton

KERRY: When Governor Dean just said, "What middle-class tax cut," let me tell him what middle-class tax cut. 

The Burnett (ph) family in Colfax, Iowa, earned $70,000. But under his plan, they are going to pay $2,178 more in taxes because they lose the child credit to raise their children, they pay a penalty for being married again because he puts it back, and they lose the 10 percent bracket, as everybody else here does. So you begin to be taxed at 15 percent, not 10 percent. 

Those aren't Bush Republican cuts, those are the Democrat cuts that we worked hard to put in place to protect the middle class. 

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Behold this article from a Kerry campaign stop last month:

Kerry, in Roanoke, blaims Bush tax cuts for downturn

By Chris Kahn , Associated Press
© February 9, 2004 | Last updated 5:02 PM Feb. 9

ROANOKE — U.S. Sen. John Kerry today blamed the administration's tax cuts for snuffing the prosperity of the 1990s and said he would end the Bush presidency the same way Bill Clinton did to the elder Bush in 1992.

"If you liked what Bill Clinton gave you in eight years, you'll love what John Kerry will give you in the first four," the front-running Democratic presidential candidate from Massachusetts told a crowd of about 500 outside a downtown firehouse.

At the morning rally, Kerry criticized an upbeat economic report released by the White House that concluded America's economy is getting stronger despite losing 2.2 million payroll jobs since Bush took office.

"I've got a feeling this report was prepared by the same people who brought us the intelligence on Iraq," Kerry said to laughter from the crowd.

The report by the president's Council of Economic Advisers said last year's tax cut was reviving business growth, and predicted the economy will grow by 4 percent and create 2.6 million new jobs this year.

Kerry disagreed.

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[Hon]

Same as he ever was.

[GeronL]

They ain't his tax cuts! He has no business mentioning them in his campaign! It is offensive!!

[Uncle George]

Anyone know if the GOP is making preparations for our overseas military vote to be safeguarded this election ??
NO MORE LIKE LAST ELECTION ! ! !

[Adrastus]

I once said Bill Clinton would rather climb a tree and lie than he would to stand on the ground and tell the truth.(I still believe that, BTW) Damned if I don't believe Kerry has mastered climbing a tree to lie and stnding on the ground to lie simultaenously. The man is a rhetorical contortionist, can lie in four directions at once and not be the least embarrassed by it.Now THAT takes some nerve.

[farmfriend]

Short list.

[My2Cents]

"If you liked what Bill Clinton gave you in eight years, you'll love what John Kerry will give you in the first four," the front-running Democratic presidential candidate from Massachusetts told a crowd of about 500 outside a downtown firehouse.

Oh goody! Double the intern scandals!

[nopardons]

What..........another unConstitutional,retroactive,even on the dead, tax increase? Oh joy and hosanna in the highest, just what we need. NOT!

What.........selling the rest of our secrets to the Chinese? Or will Kerry just give them away to the al Qaeda?

This nation does NOT need 8 years of Clinton compressed into 4!

[onyx]

OH PERFECT!

Let him run on Clinton's record.

Dang, is he THAT stupid?

[My2Cents]

What we need is to go back and undo Clinton's eight years!

[nopardons]

Exactly so! :-)

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Just mythoughts]

Quoting his words will make one a liar and one of the biggest crooks he has ever seen.

[b9]

"If you liked what Bill Clinton gave you in eight years, you'll love what John Kerry will give you in the first four,"

Oh goody! Double the intern scandals!

lol *groan*
Double our pleasure
Double our fun
With Kerry and Clinton
both rolled into one :'-(

[Paul_B]

I wish the second article had him explicitly condemning the Bush tax cuts. As it stands it just the reporter's say-so.