Posted on 10/09/2004 1:23:24 PM PDT by Always Right
In a statement reminiscent of the first President Bush’s ‘read my lips, no new taxes’, Kerry was asked during the last nights debate to give a “solemn pledge not to sign any legislation that will increase the tax burden on families earning less than $200,000 a year during your first term.”
Senator Kerry responded, “Absolutely. Yes. Right into the camera. Yes. I am not going to raise taxes.” Kerry stated further in his answer, "I'm pledging I will not raise taxes; I'm giving a tax cut to the people earning less than $200,000 a year. Now, for the people earning more than $200,000 a year, you're going to see a rollback to the level we were at with Bill Clinton, when people made a lot of money."
Unfortunately for Kerry that pledge not to raise taxes on those earning less than $200,000 is in clear opposition to Kerry’s economic plan on Kerry’s very own website.
The table at the end of the document which details Kerry's economic plan, shows where Kerry would get the biggest chunk of new taxes by restoring the top two tax brackets. This huge tax increase will generate some $337 Billion in new taxes over the next 10 years according to Kerry's projections. The top two brackets Kerry is referring to is the 36% and 39.6% which Clinton created and Bush lowered in 2001. The problem for Kerry is, going back to those tax rates will reach many taxpayers earning below the $200,000 level, and to get the $337 Billion Kerry claims, it must be a complete rollback of those brackets and not just those over $200,000.
In 2000, the last year of those rates, the 36% rate kicked in at these levels:
Married filing separately: $80,725
Single: $132,600
Married filing jointly: $161,450
Head of Household: $147,050
Even adjusting for inflation, and using the 2004 bracket levels, those numbers are all still well below the $200,000 level Kerry pledged not to raise taxes on. This is not a minor lie, this is a whopper of one. Kerry looked right into the camera on national TV and made this pledge, which is clearly out of whack with the centerpiece of his tax proposal. Kerry is lying about taxes. There are more than 8 million families who reported income between $100,000 and $200,000 according to the IRS. Kerry's lie will mean a tax increase many if not most of these families.
Yea, good rendition. And meanwhile, you can see the article on my site related to the LIARS that the DNC is filled with...
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You are right! Please forward to Bush campaign
Good one.
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And now all Bush needs to do is take this pledge to all Subchapter S corporations, which are taxed at the individual income tax rates, and show them how Kerry has promised to raise their taxes.
What's this "rollback" of which he speaks? Why doesn't he say "I will be raising the taxes on those earning over $200k to the levels of the last Democrat president"?
When the tax has been lower for 4 years, it is not a "rollback" in policy, it must stand as its own policy.
Why not go back to the upper income tax brackets of decades ago?
You can't "hold" John Kerry to anything that he does not say with his own mouth.
There is a speech by John Kerry in the Congressional Record that has him citing his Irish heritage. John Kerry is NOT Irish. He blames this error on a speech writer and claims that he never gave that speech, that it was just entered into the Congressional Record as many other statements are.
John Kerry is a lying fraud, but then you already knew that.
I thought President Bush missed a golden opportunity to poke fun at his dad's famous line and equating it to Kerry's stupid "I'll look right at the camera...".
Thanks for posting this. I thought Kerry was flip-flopping when he made that promise.
Here's how you can tell when a Dem is lying - their lips are moving.
Better get ready for a lot more monthly user fees on your phone bill.
Beatheable air fee: $21.52
Army body armor: 17.34
Partial birth abortion funding: 27.02
Unknown snail darter: 1.02
You get the idea.
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Thanks for the ping...now he is a flip flopping liar!
Thanks, I may use that if I post it again if that is OK.
Kerry appears to be a congenital liar, like you know who....
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