Bush Not Screwing Around On Making "Ownership Society" A Reality
Posted on 12/10/2004 9:00:54 AM PST by crushelits
Bush Not Screwing Around On Making "Ownership Society" A Reality
President Bush is moving quickly to create a new, tighter and more disciplined domestic policy team to pursue transforming the way Americans save for retirement, pay taxes and seek legal damages.
Convinced his leadership style and policy vision were vindicated by the election results, Bush is aggressively targeting these domestic programs for the second term by essentially replicating the formula he used to reshape foreign policy in the first. This includes creating a small, loyal and trustworthy team to press for sweeping changes largely dictated by the White House.
To build public support and circumvent critics in Congress and the media, the president will travel the country and warn of the disastrous consequences of inaction, as he did to sell his Iraq and terrorism policies during the first term, White House officials said. He is also enlisting well-funded conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation to help build the case for change -- or "reform," in the words of the White House -- through ads and commentary on television and in targeted publications, the aides said.
Bush's post-election moves to strengthen White House control of the government reflect his plans for an aggressive second-term focus on domestic policy, which in his first term was overshadowed by the national security fallout from the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The agenda includes creating private Social Security accounts for younger workers, revising the tax code to make it less complicated, limiting the size and number of lawsuits, and changing immigration laws.
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Also, 2002 he stumped for tax cuts. It worked.
I'm so glad he's going on a grassroots campaign. He's most effective on the stump and a speech in WA isn't going to build the type of pressure needed to pass these policies. Also nice to hear they are going to take it to the airwaves. Recommended advertising awhile ago, no reason this should be confined to election years. The MSM never ceases their advertising for the DNC.
Bush Not Screwing Around On Making "Ownership Society" A Reality
President Bush is moving quickly to create a new, tighter and more disciplined domestic policy team to pursue transforming the way Americans save for retirement, pay taxes and seek legal damages.
Ownership, means the citizen has first call on and decides what to do with his resouces before government gets a cut.
A Taxreform bump for you all.
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John Linder in the House & Saxby Chambliss Senate, offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and payroll taxes outright, and provide a IRS free replacement in the form of a retail sales tax:
H.R.25, S.1493
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.Refer for additional information: http://www.fairtax.org, http://www.salestax.org & http://www.geocities.com/cmcofer/ftax.html
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What's not to like about that? Certainly IS NOT true of our current tax system!
FairTax NOW!
So, does this mean Bush is going to free Americans from the tyranny of the IRS and the enslavement of the IRC by replacing it with a Constitutional revenue generation system?
Bump for the FAIR TAX and FREEDOM FOR AMERICANS...AMNESTY FOR AMERICANS!
No, it hasn't "worked" yet, until the tax cuts have been made PERMANENT. He needs to make that his top domestic priority, before he starts playing around with his pie-in-the-sky ideas. We need to cut him no slack on this.
"pie in the sky"?
Whatever.
Fact: Every single time he has stumped for tax cuts he has gotten them. You want to make them permanent? Great. It doesn't diminish his success in this arena. This is one of the few domestic policies Bush has been reliable on for the conservative side.
I have NO cause to believe I have to worry about his intentions to campaign hard for more substantive changes in the tax code. In this arena, it is NOT Bush we need to lean hard on. It is the Senate.
So, does this mean Bush is going to free Americans from the tyranny of the IRS
It's up to us to make sure he does.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
I don't give a flip about "his" success. What matters is what's good for the country. And temporary tax cuts are no better for the country than no tax cuts at all, because they provide ZERO incentive for government to cut spending. They'll only cause the deficit to increase, and then at the end of the ten-year period, the taxes will go up automatically, and the whole idea of cutting taxes will have become discredited in the public eye, because of the way they added to the deficit.
If they're not made permanent, then it's all for nothing. Yes, Congress needs to be pushed, but so does the President, most definitely. It's not a complicated task for them in the slightest. Once that's done, then we can talk about letting him play around with his other ideas.
The fact that he's enlisted the help of the Heritage Foundation is very encouraging.
Where do I sign up?
You ought to care about his success in implimenting tax cuts. It serves as an illustration that the President is an ally on this issue.
The only reason they were NOT made permanent is because the SENATE stood as an obstacle. The President and the House were solid allies. You wish to pressure the President, fine. I consider it a waste of my time that can be better spent leaning on relunctant Liberal Republicans in the Senate.
Further, those tax cuts helped shorten a recession that does dampen the economy which does negatively impact every American citizen. Certainly it is only a short term solution, permanence is needed, but it is and was better for the country then no tax cuts at all.
As to letting him "play" with other ideas, Pfft. You may not have any interest in other platforms he campaigned on, but I do. I do not consider, for example, S.S. reform to be a "pie in the sky" idea.
If the President were to lean on them, say by calling for permanent tax cuts, loudly and often, that would make a tremendous difference. If, as you say, he's gotten his way every time he's demanded tax cuts, then he has no reason not to push for it now. It's such a ridiculously simple task for him, in stark contrast to his wild ideas for "reforming" everything in sight. The fact that he declines to take such a simple step raises serious questions as to how much of an ally he really is.
Not worthy of comment.
If, as you say, he's gotten his way every time he's demanded tax cuts
He has. Look it up.
If the President were to lean on them, say by calling for permanent tax cuts, loudly and often, that would make a tremendous difference
Done. Time and again. Where were you?
Contrary to opinion, the President doesn't rule the Senate. Liberal Republicans stood in opposition of making them permanent. The President's pressure, fancy footwork by the House in the bill, and Americans burning up their phone lines made the Libs cave to temp cuts. Supposedly we now have a (barely) conservative majority in the Senate, whereas before it was only a Republican majority. We'll see how that affects the ability to make these cuts permanent.
I find it a waste of time to pressure the President on policy he is aligned with us on. In this instance, working WITH the President against Liberal obstruction in the Senate will yield greater reward. I save pressure against the Prez on issues I do not find him to be in agreement with, such as immigration.
Not worthy of comment.
It doesn't matter if you don't want to comment. It's the truth.
[If the President were to lean on them, say by calling for permanent tax cuts, loudly and often, that would make a tremendous difference]
Done. Time and again. Where were you?
He's been calling loudly and often for permanent tax cuts? Here is an FR Archive search on the subject, and there are only two instances referred to therein where he called for making the tax cuts permanent. One was from his SOTU address in January (which of course included a hodgepodge of issues for that call to get lost in), and the other was from the previous September. (Compare that to his numerous calls for having a constitutional amendment defining marriage)
When, since the November election gave him his new mandate, has he called for making the tax cuts permanent? Has there even been a single instance of that since that time?
Have I missed something here? When has this administration shown any concern about the deficit or any desire at all to cut spending? Bush will advocate making the tax cuts permanent on principle, not because it has any hope of resulting in lower spending.
Yeah, whenever he gets around to it...
I think you will see tax cuts made permanent long before you see this administration and this Congress cut spending.
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