Senator Says Bush Pushing Too Hard for Tax Cut

Reuters ^ | Sat May 3, 2003 | Reuters t

[Brimack34]

If we would have had all the tax cuts in 2000 we would be out of this sorry mess. Did you hear that Liberal Republicans.

[dgallo51]

Ah! Static budgetary analysis! Yeah, and the Clinton/Gore regime raised a dead economy with tax increases!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...TOP GUN BUSH is protecting US...

...both at Home and Abroad...

...like a TOP GUN should.

[Go Gordon]

He also said the deficits threatened to explode just as the baby boom generation, born from 1946 to 1964, begins to retire and draw on Social Security (news - web sites) and Medicare.

Ohhhhh, you mean the same generation that gave us a $6 trillion deficit are now worried about a couple hundred billion. Stick a sock in it Jeffords. Tax cuts increase revenues. As long as you guys in the Senate don't gobble up the excess, we'll be fine. Pass the stinkin tax breaks and lets move on.

[dgallo51]

The liberals can understand everything
but people who don't understand them.
---Lenny Bruce 1925-1966, American Comedian

[dgallo51]

I can drink to that too!

[malia]

"If Republicans push too hard, you have what happened to us two years ago with Senator Jeffords leaving the party," the Iowa Republican said. He quickly added that he did not expect that to happen."

That type of thinking is how Iraq's people were raped, killed, tortured, starved, and imprisoned and other acts of extreme violence. --"Don't make waves" we were told.

If there are any Republicans that would jump because OUR money will be spent by US and not THEM, let them jump!!!

Now, to finish the article.

[dgallo51]

Dear Senator Frist,

The cost of the current DNC tax strategy to future retirees is hardly inconsequential.

How big a hit, are Democrats asking us to take in our retirement living standards to restore them to power? How much economic growth are they willing to fritter away to achieve that power? And they wanted to know the cost of war in Iraq?

Why isn't anybody talking about the hidden costs of Democratic stonewalling on tax cuts to future retirees. Done effectively, this could hammer your "moderates" back into political reality, and just possibly allow for a few Democratic defections.

Thank you.
Don Newell

[dgallo51]

I can drink to that, in fact, make mine a double!

[dgallo51]

What? Accountability? In our leadership? What are you, some kind of a nut?

[dgallo51]

There are two kinds of fools:
those who can't change their opinions
and those who won't.
---Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

[ImphClinton]

Actually all the english speaking Canada would be nice. That is all of Canade except two providences about half the population. Although their politics is closer to the Democrats than the Republicans in many ways. Montreal and Quebec is closer to French politics than our Democrats.

[Joy Angela]

...TOP GUN BUSH is protecting US...

...both at Home and Abroad...

...like a TOP GUN should.

AMERICA's Hero - President Bush!

[ladyinred]

Well my goodness! What nerve the President has trying to push his tax cuts in the Congress! You'd think he was trying to keep his promises to those who elected him or something! Geeze, I can see why such a thing would upset someone like that fraud Jeffords!

[lawdude]

"FINANCING TAX CUTS WITH DEBT "

Sounds good to me. They have been funding WILD, EXCESSIVE spending with debt for years.

[WaterDragon]

Jeffords' idea of just the right "pressure" for tax cuts is to just pretend....he's offended that Bush really means to get those $*#&* tax cuts! What a moron Jeffords is. He definitely belongs in the French Democrat camp.

[Rockitz]

The president is simply trying to ease the damage from the train wreck that will occur with our economy. The debt levels we are now facing will unfortunately drag us into a severe recession, if not a depression. It's not the president's fault. He's simply in the wrong place at the wrong time with respect to the economy.

[montag813]

If Jim Jeffords is warning Bush against "pushing too hard", then IT MUST BE WORKING!!! Ha ha ha!!!

[dgallo51]

Sadly, I must concur with your dire economic assessment. Nothing short of a complete scrapping of the Tax Code and replacing it with an economically neutral flat tax will mitigate the carnage.