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