The next debate. Vanity

[Murp]

Three points for the President to pound home.

"Mr. Kerry, when you talk about my administration squandering the surplus, cutting taxes, and losing jobs, do you not understand that the small investors and retirees who paid, during the roaring 90s, the "paper profit" taxes created by Mr. Clintons soaring internet bubble, were devistated by the stock crash? Do you not think they deserved some tax relief? Did the dotcoms, that sold, not times earnings, but times sales, have anything in common with the 17th century tulip bulb bubble? Is it possible that the prior administration was silent, because they wanted the taxes to continue to pour in? Where was the prior administration in warning that, "if it sounds too good to be true, don't invest?" And then came 9-11. "Do you not believe EVERYTHING, INCLUDING OUR ECONOMY, changed on 9-11?"

"Mr. Kerry, my wife and I paid 27% federal tax rate last year. What % did you and Mrs. Kerry pay?"

The President should acknowledge that true free trade cannot exist where a disparity in labor cost exists. Outsourcing of jobs to countries who exploit this advantage must be addressed by congress. The President must lead.

[maestro]

The next debate. Vanity

...............?.....to be held in the DARK...? all lights OUT...?

/sarcasm

[jimfrommaine]

I think everybody has a wish list for waht the President should do in the next debate. Tax cuts should be a strong point for him. You know Kerry will say all the tax cuts from the rich have taken money away from homeland security, health care ect. President Bush can say our tax cuts began to take effect in 2003. And the rich as you define them sir, I'd like to call them job creators, are paying more in taxes this year than they did in 2003. Buy eliminating the tax cuts for entreprenuers, you will punish the middle class and the working poor. You will kill jobs. And the about of tax revenue from the upper income brackets will fall. We'll lose money for homeland security, we'll lose money for health care and education reform if we repeal the tax cuts.
Kerry will come back and say this is fuzzy math. But Bush can come back and say that it's the truth. He inheirted the Clinton dot-com recession. It was made worse by the events of 9/11. As jobs were lost revenues went down. Spending continued to go up because we need to win the war on terror. We needed education reform, and prescrition drug reform. So that's why the deficit has climbed.
But a funny thing has happened since 2003. Our tax cuts are finally taking effect. We know this because jobs are being created, incomes are rising. The poor and the middle class have opportunities that seemed out of reach during the clinton Recession. incomes are rising for the working poor and the middle class. And the entrepreneurs are also experiencing increased prosperity. Tax rates may have fallen for the job creator, but because the economy is growing at the fastest rate in 20 years, they are paying more in taxes than a year ago.
Anyway this would be a nice opportunity to explode the myth that we have to pay for tax cuts. No, if they are done correctly, like Kennedy and Reagan's tax cuts, they are revenue generators.
God bless everyone. Jim