Tax-cut ad citing JFK irks Kennedys

Boston Globe ^ | 5/9/2003

[nickcarraway]

WASHINGTON -- The family of President Kennedy objected yesterday to the use of his name or image in ads touting President Bush's tax cut package. The late president's brother, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and daughter, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, said the ads were ''politically irresponsible and grossly inaccurate,'' and called on the Club for Growth, a tax-cut advocacy group, to take them off the air.

[Inyokern]

They said Bush's tax plan is skewed to benefit the rich, whereas President Kennedy's went primarily to lower and middle income families.

As I recall, Kennedy's plan cut the top rate drastically. I don't think lower and middle income families paid the top rate.

[Capitalism2003]

JFK was the LAST conservative democrat. His party and brother have completely embraced the socialist left and have absolutely nothing in common with the way JFK saw the world. We should be encouraging common sense, mainstream democrats to wake up and realize what their party has become..and we should welcome them to our side.

[Mister Baredog]

ROTFLMAO! The DEMONCRATS are free to use Kennedy as much as they want, they don't OWN his words, what fools they are.

[discostu]

Should have put an ",again" at the end. Did the same trick last time and it worked. Reminds people that Republicans aren't the only ones that cut taxes, and allows the Dem zealots to embarass themselves.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Cry me a river for the Kennedys.

[Bigun]

Tax-cut ad citing JFK irks Kennedys

Good! In that case we should run it again and again!

[kimoajax]

To bad Teddy can't drown this cute but vexing historically accurate Kennedy legacy.

[Lance Romance]

How about the ad "If Mary Jo Kopeckne were alive today, she would have wanted a tax cut".

[Madame Dufarge]

"a. Herbert Stein observed that the tax cut plan gave “considerable deference to the interests of corporations and wealthy individuals as taxpayers.”[5]

"b. Despite the fact that the largest marginal reductions were targeted towards upper-income Americans, revenues grew significantly from this group.

"In the three years prior to the tax cut, revenues from those earning more than $50,000 grew by 6.1 percent annually. In the three years after the tax cut, this growth rate more than doubled to 14.1 percent annually."

Kennedy Tax Cut Plan

[nickcarraway]

I believe that Kennedy's tax cut was the greatest tax cut the rich ever recieved. (and probably will ever recieve) I think the top tax rate was 90% before that. 90 %. 90%.

[blanknoone]

The Dimrats hate it when it is made obvious that the best thing their favorite son did was act like a republican.

[liberalnot]

basically, all ronald reagan did, was restore america to the democrat party of 1960, in effect, opposing the leftism that gradually took hold increasingly from the fdr-lbj-1970's university socialism. the latter was cuban communism.

[snarkpup]

To make the Kennedys go even more ballistic, how about some ads reminding everyone that JFK stood up to foreign powers that demanded we convert to socialism or they would "bury us".

[Bigun]

LOL! Yes indeed!

[Calvin Locke]

Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg was complaining two years ago about this very subject. Why is it news now?

John Edwards crossed over to read what's left...? Nevermind.

Tough cookies. It was a speech by someone in "public service" as the Kennedys like to remind everybody ad nauseum.

Not only that, it was the right thing to do then, and its the right thing to do now.

[nickcarraway]

a. Cut individual income tax rates across the board, including reducing the top marginal rate from 91 to 70 percent. The lowest rate went from 20 percent to 14 percent.

b. Reduced the rate of corporate taxation from 52 percent to 47 percent.

c. Liberalized rules for the depreciation of capital.

[from occupied ga]

-- The family of President Kennedy objected yesterday to the use of his name or image in ads touting President Bush's tax cut package. The late president's brother, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and daughter, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, said the ads were ''politically irresponsible and grossly inaccurate,'' and called on the Club for Growth, a tax-cut advocacy group, to take them off the air.

To this bunch of greedy slobbering plunder and squander Democrats, anything that reduces their ill gotten tax loot is evil. The ads must be effective if they're complaining.

[nickcarraway]

Senator Ted Kennedy’s record on the (John) Kennedy-Johnson Tax Cut:[9]

a. Voted “yes” on final passage in the Senate, February 7, 1964[10]

b. Voted “yes” on the final Conference Report, February 26, 1964.[11]

[wayoverontheright]

Pointing out what John Kennedy stood for causes the Kennedys to come to terms with how much they have prostituted themselves to the left in the name of power.

The truth about what the left was when juxtaposed with what it now will always elicit a visceral response because it illuminates their depravity so clearly.