Bush in 2000 Debates - tax plan

[teach1st]

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/04/politics/04RTEXT1.html?ex=1080450000&en=35744b8aaa3de49a&ei=5070

Did any of Bush's economic rhetoric listed here come anywhere close after three years? It's from the first 2000 debate between Gore and Bush, October 2000.

Under my tax plan, that (Gore) continues to criticize, I set a third -- the federal government should take no more than a third of anybody's check. But I also drop the bottom rate from 15 percent to 10 percent because by far the vast majority of the help goes to the people at the bottom end of the economic ladder. If you're a family of four in Massachusetts making $50,000 you get a 50 percent cut in the federal income taxes you pay. It's from 4,000 to about 2,000.

And I think you're going to find the difference reflected in our budgets. I want to take one-half of the surplus and dedicate it to Social Security, one-quarter of the surplus for important projects and I want to send one-quarter of the surplus back to the people who pay the bills. I want everybody who pays taxes to have their tax rates cut.

[alcuno]

1. It's almost funny that * thought the bottom end of the economic ladder

were families making $50,000/year.

[MAlibdem]

2. read Al Franken's book

he devotes a chapter to "by far the vast majority of the help goes to the people at the bottom end of the economic ladder"

long story short: Bush* is full of BS