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Hillary: Tax Hike Needed to Fight Iraq
NEWSMAX ^ | 9/5/02 | STAFF

Posted on 09/05/2002 9:54:52 AM PDT by finnman69

Thursday Sept. 5, 2002; 12:32 p.m. EDT

Hillary: Tax Hike Needed to Fight Iraq

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she supports raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans to fight a war in Iraq, adding that the federal government also needs more money to fund homeland security.

"I think if we're in a war and we're thinking about expanding that war to Iraq, you know, the nation and particularly those of us who are in the top one to ten percent of our country's earners, we have to be willing to put our money where our mouths are," she told WABC Radio's John Gambling.

Mrs. Clinton said our homeland security force was also desperately in need of more spending.

"We've not yet put the money into our first responders and into security," she told WABC. "In fact, the firefighters and the police officers of our country have not been given the support from the federal government that they need when they answer the 9-11 call.

"When it comes to our homeland defenders, "she added, "I don't think we've made the commitment that we need to make yet."

Clinton said that the war on terrorism demanded a new set of budgetary priorities, telling WABC that the Bush tax cut threatened to put the nation back into "the deficit ditch."

"I didn't support the large tax cut because I thought that it was based on phony arithmetic," she said. "There's no way that you could make the numbers work."

Clinton said the same thing happened with the Reagan era tax cuts, complaining, "We've seen this before. This is what was done in the 1980's and it took about eight years to get out of the deficit ditch and to get a surplus so that we could be prepared for rainy days and even terrible tragedies like what happened to us on 9-11."

She continued to criticize the Bush tax cuts, arguing that the nation could no longer afford to be "throwing money" away.

"Now we're back into deficits. Our debt's going up," she noted. "And, yeah, we do have to make hard choices because, frankly, we should not be giving money or throwing money at anything that is not going to pay off."

The leading New York Democrat once again zeroed in on the Bush tax cut, telling WABC, "But here we're in a situation where the administration's only answer to everything that ails us is like the old fashioned medicine man, you know, tax cuts, tax cuts."

Then she made the case for a new war tax to fund an attack on Iraq:

"Well, I think if we're in a war and we're thinking about expanding that war to Iraq, you know, the nation, and particularly those of us who are in the top one to ten percent of our country's earners, we have to be willing to put our money where our mouths are."

The presidential hopeful said that the nation could not have the kind of security it needs if its leaders tried to "do that on the cheap."

"We all want a secure world," she observed. "We all want to be sure when we get on our airplane or our Amtrak that we're safe. Well, you know, you can't do that on the cheap. And you can't do it if you're running up deficits and not paying attention to the fiscal responsibility of the federal government."


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: hillary; hillaryclinton; iraq; taxcuts
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To: taxcontrol
proof she is a fool
21 posted on 09/05/2002 10:49:37 AM PDT by The Wizard
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To: finnman69
""But here we're in a situation where the administration's only answer to everything that ails us is like the old fashioned medicine man, you know, tax cuts, tax cuts."

Couldn't some enterprising Republican use this sound bite in their campaign ads?? Is she such a dope,that she doesn't realize that what she just said, is music to Republicans ears??
22 posted on 09/05/2002 10:52:15 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: cthusker77
I wish more people like you lived in New York and could vote against her.
For now, we need to take back the Senate!
23 posted on 09/05/2002 10:56:00 AM PDT by NEWwoman
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To: finnman69
I say we should raise taxes but lets start with her and billy boy and the rest of the demos who got rich on the working mans back under the clinton admin.
24 posted on 09/05/2002 11:16:01 AM PDT by oiljake
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To: finnman69
Hillary is a political bi bitch...she wants
to screw everybody
25 posted on 09/05/2002 11:18:10 AM PDT by cactusSharp
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To: finnman69
those of us who are in the top one to ten percent of our country's earners, we have to be willing to put our money where our mouths are,"

And still living off the taxpayer. What a snot she is.

26 posted on 09/05/2002 11:20:38 AM PDT by mombonn
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To: finnman69
Hitlery and the Dems never saw a tax they didn't like. In fact they take great pains to invent new ones.
27 posted on 09/05/2002 11:21:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: finnman69
This is what you can expect from a woman that steal from old people in a land scam run by her in Ark.
28 posted on 09/05/2002 11:34:01 AM PDT by Texbob
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To: finnman69
Oh, now it's "you have to raise taxes anytime there is a national security problem or emergency... or you can't take any action." How about "we'll need to cut all discretionary spending programs by 5% to pay for this war?"
29 posted on 09/05/2002 11:50:26 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: finnman69
What is amazing is that she actually considers herself in the upper 10% of the wealthy, considering that she and Billy Bubba are in reality Arkansas white trash that her New York constituency is so fascinated with. Secondly, when has any of the Clintoons been anything other than "raise taxes to solve all problems" people? As far as Bush's returning money to the people who paid the taxes, the very idea is anathema to the democrazies state of mind. So, when Hitlery keeps repeating herself about her position of returning money to the people, just reinforces the belief that all democrazies are not, have not nor will ever be for the benefit of the general populace.
30 posted on 09/05/2002 12:12:33 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: finnman69
Do you really believe that? A more accurate theory, proven by history repeatedly, is that war is the health of the tax eaters.
32 posted on 09/05/2002 12:44:45 PM PDT by Austin Willard Wright
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To: finnman69
we have to be willing to put our money where our mouths are

We already do - and I want a big chunk of my money back. What we need to be willing to do is prioritize expenditures and decide what "entitlements" to cut to ensure we handle the first priority of government - to protect its citizens.
33 posted on 09/05/2002 12:56:28 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Dick Bachert
and #7: Get off the public dole - quit the Senate and get an honest job!
34 posted on 09/05/2002 1:03:35 PM PDT by M. T. Cicero II
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To: sierradove
YUCK! ICK! HURL! Oh, I'm sorry, that is only a figure of speech. Never mind. Carry on.
35 posted on 09/05/2002 1:05:01 PM PDT by M. T. Cicero II
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To: finnman69
I wish she would just lay down and DIE already!! I mean, GEEEZZ!!! Enough is enough!!
36 posted on 09/05/2002 1:58:26 PM PDT by 4mycountry
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To: taxcontrol
RATS will use any excuse to raise taxes.
37 posted on 09/05/2002 2:18:45 PM PDT by pankot
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To: finnman69
"I didn't support the large tax cut because I thought that it was based on phony arithmetic," she said. "There's no way that you could make the numbers work."

Funny that arithmetic didn't mean anything when you were boasting about the huge surplus your husband supposedly produced....but when it came to giving it back the the taxpayers in a taxcut, all of a sudden the surplus wasn't there anymore.
You're a lying parasite.

38 posted on 09/05/2002 3:49:47 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: All
If we didn't have to rebuild our army, cater to the lazy folks in America and spend millions of dollars and man hours to uncover the dirt of a filthy, Clinton administration, we'd be in better shape.

Regardless, the tax cut worked and will continue to work. It buys goods (which means jobs)and not political pet projects which equate to handouts.

Now, on to ANWAR and its job market and the FOREST work to be done by the loggers.

Create a job market and you keep the goods rolling and the money flowing.

The broad is dumb, knows shi_ about everything. (Her mistake here is that she obviously agrees with a war on Iraq.) Must have been that briefing and is she speaking out of place??? (as usual).

Sac

39 posted on 09/05/2002 4:01:13 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: finnman69
To Mrs. William Jefferson Blythe Klinton-- Just one word: BOO!
40 posted on 09/05/2002 4:42:59 PM PDT by Mark
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