Bush: Myth-buster and Republican original (FROZEN HELL ALERT)

CNN ^ | May 19, 2003 | Mark Shields

[fightinJAG]

WASHINGTON (Creators Syndicate) -- A warning to my liberal friends: Reading the following paragraphs may risk elevating your blood pressure. In is this writer's view, President George W. Bush has already established himself as a transforming American political figure who is personally changing the face of the Republican Party.

[Arkie2]

Don't see anything here but the usual liberal claptrap. Why the hell frozen over alert? If you read the opening para. you may have thought this was in praise of Bush but such is not the case!

[fightinJAG]

how about a frozen hell alert because Maxi Shields THINKS he is praising Bush? Works for me!

[Bigg Red]

Yep, typical Shields bullclinton.

[Dog Gone]

He knows full well he's not praising Bush. He's engaged in the usual distortions that characterize leftist writing.

[Common Tator]

The rising tide of tax breaks will apparently lift all yachts. Why so much preference for the well-heeled top-dogs and so little concern for the nation's economic underdogs?

It is pretty simple. Did you ever think to go job hunting by asking the nation's economic underdogs for a nice paying job? Would you have better luck asking for a good job from a rich expanding corporation?

What does that economic underdog do with tax payers money if you give it to him? The underdog doesn't pay much in the way of taxes. So you have to just give him money out of the federal treasury. What will he or she do with it? Will they buy a new TV? How about a new computer, or sound system? Perhaps some new clothes for the spouse and kids? The odds are that this spending by the economic underprivileged will put people to work. The problem is the people put to work are in Taiwan, China, Japan, and Mexico.

The disadvantaged will spend money on things that do not say made in the USA. Such spending will not put Americans to work.

If the government wants to use tax policy to put poor people to work, they had best get the money to the people who will hire them.

If you go to the fanciest Country Club and ask the people entering if they need any help, then go to the welfare line and ask those people standing in line if they need any help, you will be asking two entirely different questions.

[Arkie2]

I think I've got it! The warning to his liberal friends was because there was faint praise for Rragan!

[A_perfect_lady]

Another socialist determined to spread the poverty equally, I see. Where do these people come from and can't we make them go back?

[facedown]

If you go to the fanciest Country Club and ask the people entering if they need any help, then go to the welfare line and ask those people standing in line if they need any help, you will be asking two entirely different questions.

A shrewd observation!

[Bahbah]

"the Original Tax-Cutter, Ronald Reagan,"

Much as I love the Gipper, and as right as he was about cutting taxes, it was John Kennedy who was the original tax cutter.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Markey is reminded of "the Republicans' approach to tax cuts. Republicans propose tax cuts when the budget is in surplus ... (and) when the budget is in deficit . Otherwise, they never propose tax-cuts ... unless they're thirsty for more giveaways to the rich."

Or how about the Democrats approach...

"We oppose tax cuts when in surplus. We oppose them in deficits. We oppose them in lean years. And we resist them in prosperity. But we will support a tax cut, unless we want to spend the money instead."

[cake_crumb]

When I saw that 'Frozen Hell Alert' I thought CNN had actually published something TRUTHFUL about President Bush for a change.

Gonna go eat supper.

[hscott]

The situation is even worse than you think.

I looked at JOBS AND GROWTH RECONCILIATION TAX ACT OF 2003 at http://frwebgate1.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi ?WAISdocID=38639822630+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

From the Congressional Record. The bit about "Two-thirds of the relief on the capital gains and on the dividend exclusion goes to those people who have incomes over $200,000." is in there all right - it is a comment by B. Cardin (D - Maryland).

So basically Shields says that the Tax Committee said thus and so when in fact a Dem member said it. Very different.

I'd say Shields is a despicable liar.

[anniegetyourgun]

No kidding....waddabunchahooey this was.

[ladyinred]

We wanna talk about class warfare do we?
Holy baloney, the epitome of such "us against them" is the democrat party of today! Is this writer actually trying to deny it?

The real deal is that tax cuts will help all of us, rich and poor alike, and they know that as well as I do. But we have to keep the Pubbies the party of the rich, the evil ones (who pay most of the taxes already) who must not be thought of as employers, rather they must be Satan incarnate to the public! They sure don't want an improved economy during election year!

[arthurus]

Coolidge and Harding were both taxcutters.

[pierrem15]

calculates that the Bush-backed House bill will eventually award 67.8 percent of the total tax-cut dollars to those with annual incomes of more than $200,000, even though that group under current law pays just 32.7 of the federal taxes.

This reverses the percentages, I think. The top 1/3 of income earners pay about 2/3 of the income taxes (at least). Shields is a liar or a fraud, or both.

[fat city]

Showing no mercy, Rep. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, compares the Bush Republicans' addiction to annual tax-cuts to the French winemaker Madame Bollinger's fondness for champagne. She said: "I drink it when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes, I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. ... Otherwise, I never touch it -- unless I'm thirsty."

Oooh! Now that hurts!

[Bahbah]

I never thought I would feel young.

[Susannah]

Info from Kiplinger Tax Facts:

top 1% pay 37% of the tax burden
top 5% pay 56%
lowest 50% pay 4%

Under the new budget plan, the top brackets will pay an even larger percentage of the taz burden.