Dean says US tax cut should be repealed

Boston GLobe ^ | 7/22/2002 | By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff

[vannrox]

WASHINGTON - Vermont Governor Howard Dean yesterday called for a rollback of President Bush's $1.3 trillion tax cut to pay for universal health coverage, the strongest antitax cut proposal to date by a potential 2004 Democratic presidential contender.

Providing health insurance to all Americans would ''cost about half the cost of the president's tax cut, which I think should be pretty much repealed. I think the president's tax cut is costing us a fortune,'' Dean said on NBC's ''Meet the Press'' yesterday.

[vannrox]

This kind of thinking just blows my mind.

[mwl1]

Let him run. Spring 2004 the RAT contenders will be bickering with each other over gay rights, gun controls, tax increases and slavery reparations. The American people will appropriately recoil.

Just desserts for a bunch of corrupt, scheming liars.

[goldstategop]

Howard Dean like Walter Mondale thinks we need to have our taxes raised. Oh goody.... let's see him make the argument on the campaign trail on the way to a landslide loss. Lucky for us, liberals like Dean never do learn from history. People don't like politicians who want to raise their taxes, period.

[ppaul]

More mind-numbing, state-worshipping, socialist thought from democRATS.
From the governor of the only state in the union to elect a member of the Socialist Party to Congress.
What an idiot.
And dangerous.
An enemy of our free republic.

[isthisnickcool]

Someone get the plunger. The toilet is stopped up and these "floaters" are starting to stink.

[goldstategop]

Uh huh. This strategery of Governor Dean's all fits in with the Rats desire to talk the economy into a recession so they can win in November. Nothing is beneath these types even if it means torpedoing the world's largest economy to gain political power. That's why Dean and other liberals want to convince us to hand over our money and control of our lives to them. They really do think they are our betterers.

[thucydides]

Ever since George McGovern rewrote the 'rat convention rules after the 1968 Chicago fiasco, every 'rat presidential hopeful has had to run far, far left in hopes of getting the support of hard core primary voters and the interest group blocs at the convention. Once nominated, the candidate then tries to blur his positions for the public, while privately assuring the interest groups that he is with them (which is true), and relies on the media arm of the party to pass him off to the public as a moderate. No 'rat candidate can ever reach the White House except through a program of continual lying to the public.

[monkeyshine]

We could repeal payments to the UN, to the National Education Association, the IRS, and to the War on Drugs, and fund universal health care too. Not that I advocate it, just pointing out that all the government really wants in more control over the people and their money, not to help the people. "Helping People" is just the excuse they use to gain more control.

[JoeSixPack1]

This guy gets the "OINK" award for best pork proposal!

[hchutch]

Yes... let them go on doing that. Either way, we should do quite well as they out-left each other.

[SES1066]

Dean acknowledged that most Americans would not want to give up their tax cut. But if those same voters were asked to relinquish the ''few hundred dollars or the $20 or $30 that I got in that tax cut in order to have decent roads, decent schools, and a decent health care system,'' they would support it, Dean said.

Let me say this once again, "It ain't the cost, it is the upkeep!" A tax cut gives money back to the system to be either saved or spent by the person who earned it. This idjit wants my money to start a nationalized health system that he purports would only cost half of the tax cut. There is no social welfare scheme that has ever stayed within budget or timeframe. Look at the initial debates on Social Security or Medicare and all of the assurances from the proponents about how innocuous the tax cost would be. Then look at what people like O'Neil, Pepper and Gibbons et.al. did with the 'free' money to 'help' their constituants.

Look at the 'successes' in Sweden, Britain and Canada and look at how much government control there is over medical care. Add to this the fact that one of the Dem's largest contributors are the Trial Lawyers who will demand the right to continue malpractice cases and I see the worst of both worlds. Give me a BREAK!

[kaboom]

Why doesn't Dean just propose a state tax increase for Vermont to make up for their lost federal assistance?

Oh,yeah, I forgot, they want other peoples money to fund their little socialist experiment.

[goldstategop]

Let's remind people Vermont is home to three socialist worthies besides Dean: Bernard Sanders, Patrick Leahy, and Jim Jeffords.

[mysterio]

actually, President Bush might have to push to get the tax cut repealed if he wants to keep creating new branches of government. The citizen spy programs won't be free, either.

Although it would be sad to see the tax cut go. It's one of the very few things that he has done right.

[Paleo Conservative]

Vermont should be expelled from the US.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Doesn't blow mine. I have yet, as an upper bracket tax payer to really feel any impact. THIS kind of thinking is typical of the socialist elite. May they all burn in hell.

[unixfox]

I wonder how much of his personal money he has contributed to others health care.

What an idiot !!

[Still Thinking]

We could repeal payments to the UN, to the National Education Association, the IRS, and to the War on Drugs, and fund universal health care too.

What about NPR, PBS, and the National Endowment for the Arts?

[chimera]

If he runs, all his opponents have to say is, Howard Dean thinks you're undertaxed. There may be a very few out there (rich liberals) who would agree and would vote for him regardless, but most of us, and especially anyone who really works for a living and who seemingly pay some kind of tax at every turn, would not.

[rudypoot]

"I think the president's tax cut is costing us a fortune."

Who is "us"?

"I think most of the president's tax cut ought to be repealed. It's very bad economic policy,'' Dean said. The governor was highly critical of Bush's economic policy - which he said recalled the ''voodoo economics'' of the president's father - and suggested that the president's foreign policy experience was limited."

Morons never learn, do they?

How about cutting taxes so everyone can afford their own health insurance? How about stop discriminating against the "rich" by setting a flat tax rate? The government should not be telling people what they "can or cannot afford" for the reasoning of the tax code. A progressive income tax is unconstitutional.