Posted on 11/07/2005 12:06:47 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Bill Clinton: Bush Tax Cuts 'Immoral', 'Unethical'
Ex-president Bill Clinton is blasting President Bush's economic policies as "immoral" and "unethical," saying he blames administration tax cuts for increasing hostility towards the U.S. around the world.
"I hear all this talk about family values and all this stuff," Clinton told an audience at the University of Minnesota on Saturday, before explaining how an old friend had been hurt by cuts in subsidies for Americans in need while the wealthy got tax cuts.
"I resent it," Clinton said, his voice rising in anger. "I think it's immoral, I think it's unethical."
"Nobody ever explains what the meaning of those tax cuts are," he told the crowd. "So we're going to give them their tax cuts first and then go ask the Chinese to loan us money to help save the lives of the young men and women we send into combat."
The Minnesota crowd applauded as the ex-president continued to paint the White House as fiscally irresponsible in a way that shortchanges other countries.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
I've thought the same thing. I mean, clinton always talks about all the money he saved because of the Bush tax cut, complaining about them, yet he never had a public conference showing the check that was made out to the IRS in the amount of his tax cut. More proof liberals are hypocrites.
What I don't understand is how The President and his Daddy still associate with this sack of vomit. After so many stabs to the back from this perv to his own son, Bush 41 still hangs around with this weasel like they're the best of buddies.
Teddy and Bill, the standards for morals and ethics in the Democrat party. What am I missing here.
John F. Kennedy said that “No lasting solution to the problem (of poverty) can be bought with a welfare check”.
Robert Kennedy said: “In our generosity we have created a system of hand-outs, a second-rate set of social services which damages and demeans its recipients, and destroys any semblance of human dignity that the have managed to retain through their adversity. In the long run, welfare payments solve nothing, for the giver or the receiver; free Americans deserve the chance to be fully self-supporting.”
Clinton signed the welfare reform act. Today's new Democrats, in contrast with Kennedy-era Democrats, screamed that millions of people would end of living on the streets after Clinton signed the welfare reform act.
The actual result: Since 1996 every wild prediction has proved false. Poverty did not increase but fell precipitously. Women and children were not sleeping under bridges but found jobs.
Since 1996, welfare rolls have been reduced by 60%. The poverty rate has declined from 13.8% in 1995 to 11.7% in 2003. 3.5 million fewer Americans are poor today than in 1995, including 2.3 million children. Poverty among Black children has reached its lowest point in history. Hunger among children has been reduced by half.
Since more Americans are working than ever before in our nation's history, it sounds like to me that welfare reform and tax reform and tax cuts have been a good thing for our citizenry.
This man and his lies irk me to no end. The most immoral thing about our government is the sanctioning of the killing of millions of babies each year. Did he mention this?
Sheesh! What would a Clinton know about ethics? Man, he just keeps piling up the donkey poop, doesn't he?
Ohhhhhh goodie a bedtime story! I likes bedtime stories! Tell it again! 8)
"saying he blames administration tax cuts for increasing hostility towards the U.S. around the world".
WTF! LMAO! What an idiot!
Immoral? Unethical?
Hey, Billy Jeff: shut up and clean the sink.
*IRS, 2003 Statistical Abstract.
What a Strange Choise of words for "Ol'Droopy Draws" to use.
Was he shaking that finger at us when he used those two words.?
Court: Clinton Library Can Get Tax Break
JAMES JEFFERSON, Associated Press Writer
Thu Oct 27, 7:39 PM ET
Bill Clinton's presidential library foundation is eligible for a $3.5 million tax break meant for economic development, The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting the state's argument that nonprofits shouldn't receive such aid.
The court said unanimously that any legitimate business, including nonprofits, was entitled to the aid.
The William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation sought the tax break in 2002 as it built the $165 million museum complex on the south bank of the Arkansas River downtown. The state said it wasn't eligible, but the foundation argued it should be because the library and museum center brought tourists and helped generate jobs.
"We are very pleased. We believed from the beginning that we qualified for this program," foundation president Skip Rutherford said Thursday. "This sends the message that Arkansas is nonprofit friendly, and that non-profits can be economic generators."
The Arkansas Department of Economic Development didn't dispute the economic benefits of the library — development in downtown Little Rock has soared since Clinton said in the 1990s that he would build his library here — but interpreted the tax-incentive law differently.
"All along this was a dispute about a tax incentive, not about the economic importance of the Clinton Presidential Library," said Mitch Chandler, a spokesman for the economic agency.
The library has welcomed more than 400,000 visitors since opening last November.
The Arkansas Enterprise Zone Act of 1993 provided for refunds of sale and use taxes by "any legitimate business enterprise" that meets certain state guidelines, including whether the business serves as a corporate or regional headquarters, doesn't sell material to the general public and employs 25 or more people.
Legislators added the words "for profit" to the law in 2003, but the Supreme Court noted that at the time the foundation applied for the tax break, the statute did not prohibit nonprofits from receiving it.
The state Supreme Court members are elected in non-partisan races.
clintoon is p*ssed because he didn't think of the tax cuts first.
I'm surprised his jaw didn't lock up.
"STFUYPOSMFSOBCSAH
The scary thing (for me) about your post is that I understand what is says!"
It got my attention too, and I figured it all out but the last 4 letters. I'm too old for this, I think.
This is your brain on drugs.
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