Senator Says Bush Pushing Too Hard for Tax Cut

Reuters ^ | Sat May 3, 2003 | Reuters t

[dgallo51]

Why isn't anyone talking about boycotting "Made in Vermont" maple syrup? With Pat Leahy and Jumpin' Jim as Senators, they must be FRENCH!

[PhiKapMom]

I have been boycotting Vermont maple syrup since Jumpin' Jim Jeffords jumped! Would hate to have Leahy and Jeffords as my two Senators! UGH!

[annyokie]

[RobbyS]

that the nation's children and grandchildren will eventually have to pay back.It was only a few years ago they were talkiing about hhow to use the surplus! All this talk about the long-term is nonsense. The only that that is certain is that the social security system cannot continue on its present basis.

[Paleo Conservative]

It's time to trade Vermont for Alberta.

[exit82]

It's called "leadership", Jumping Jim, not "pushing too hard". But then, you wouldn't be able to recognize it as such anyway.

[Mean Daddy]

Juck Feffords.

[tomahawk]

Reuters is a joke. We're not "FINANCING TAX CUTS WITH DEBT", as they say, we're financing government spending with debt. Any moron who understands where taxes come from and where spending comes from understands the difference. Mental pygmies.

[supercat]

I wonder if the management at the local stores have arguments about how they're going to "pay for" a sale? After all, if the company normally sells 100 widgets/day for $100 and it cuts the price to $80 for a week, it will lose at least $2,000/day, and possibly much more if people decide to buy more than the usual number of widgets.

[supercat]

BTW, why does nobody ask if the country can afford to keep sending so much money to Washington?

[dwswager]

Jeffords jumped because he finally figured out that the Republican party was no longer the party of snotty rich liberals as opposed to the Democratic party which is the party of snotty middle class and poor liberals. He apparently missed the whole "A Choice, Not an Echo", Goldwater era and the Reagan Revolution.

[Cameron1]

Jeffords commenting on a tax cut.....LOL

You never see real fear in the eyes of a liberal like you do when you say the words "tax cut!"

The taxes belong to the people. Taxes are necessary to run the government. But there are too many unnecessary government programs designed for no other reasons than to get votes and they should be terminated and the money returned to the people from which it came.

[Paul Atreides]

I'd like to tell Mr. Jeffords what he can push too hard...

[chuckles]

If Dubya doesn't get the economic stimulus package he asks for, how can he be blamed for the economy? If I were him, I would scream to the hilltops every day that the economic stagnation belongs to the ANTI stimulus Senators that are blocking my plan. If he is blocked at every turn, how can he take the blame?

[geedee]

It's time to trade Vermont for Alberta.

With a Massachusetts kicker.

[dts32041]

Remember this, if you used the accounting practices of the US Government, you would be serving time for multiple felonies.

I just wish once some on say, budget, start from scratch, no base line, and do a real effing budget.

[T'wit]

When a liberal attacks Bush, it shows up as a Reuters "news" story. When a liberal speaks out on anything, it shows up as a Reuters "news" story. When liberals lie, cheat, steal, beat their wives, take bribes, get sloshed in public, impregnate teenaged girls, sell nuclear secrets, commit rape, wave their plumbing at their employees, stick a cigar where the sun don't shine or incinerate a church, the story will be suppressed in Reuters.

I theeenk there is a pattern here.

[dgallo51]

I'll drink to that!

[dgallo51]

I'll drink to that too!

[dgallo51]

What? You expect Reuters to employ business writers with an understanding of Capitalism and Economics? What a novel concept!