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To: Oberon; 11th Earl of Mar; Elsie; MEG33; All
Check out the Business Week interview with Dean.

Here's an excerpt:

Q: George Bush argues that the U.S. is primed for a strong economic recovery. How do you see it?

A: I think that is complete nonsense. My favorite economist on Wall Street is Stephen Roach. He believes that the combination of these enormous deficits, incredibly low and potentially negative savings rates, and the enormous trade imbalance that we have is likely to result in significant economic calamity. So while there may be some short-term improvement, I think this President has put the entire economic future of America in enormous jeopardy with his supply-side nonsense.

Q: What would you do to get the economy moving again?

A: First, we need to do what Clinton did in 1993: We need to make a genuine effort to start to balance the budget to restore investor confidence. The second thing I would do is to support the small-business community. They create more jobs than large businesses do, and they don't move their jobs offshore. And if American taxpayers are going to invest in businesses with tax breaks, we ought to invest in businesses that stay here.

Q: Are you calling for the repeal of all the Bush tax cuts or just those passed this year?

A: All the cuts, though there are some tax cuts that we would look at as [part of] an economic-stimulus package. But right now the President's tax cuts are so irresponsible and so foolish that I would repeal all of them. The kinds of things I like in tax policy are things like rapid depreciation, with fixed time periods of eligibility. But the [tax cuts are] such a mess that it's better to start all over again.

8 posted on 08/04/2003 6:23:34 AM PDT by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
"Vote for me! I'm Howard Dean. I'm mad. I'm mad that you don't pay enough taxes. I'm so mad I could spit. Make me president and I'll fix this low tax nonsense NOW. I'll tax you until you squeal. I'll tax you until the economy collapses for a generation and all you have is welfare. Only there isn't much welfare anymore and thatmakes me mad! So I'll tax everybody even more to pay for more welfare."
13 posted on 08/04/2003 6:30:43 AM PDT by Kevin Curry (Put Justice Janice Rogers Brown on the Supreme Court--NOW)
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To: mountaineer
Q: What would you do to get the economy moving again? A: First, we need to do what Clinton did in 1993: We need to make a genuine effort to start to balance the budget to restore investor confidence. The second thing I would do is to support the small-business community. They create more jobs than large businesses do, and they don't move their jobs offshore. And if American taxpayers are going to invest in businesses with tax breaks, we ought to invest in businesses that stay here.

Complete and utter hogwash from Coward Dean.

Vermont was just recently listed as one of the WORST places in the US to start a small business:

http://www.bcentral.com/articles/harper/141.asp

No one has yet shown this to Dean's campaign, nor has anyone called him on it.

32 posted on 08/04/2003 11:20:10 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow ("The board is set. The pieces are moving. We come to it at last...the Great Battle of our time.")
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