This is the one area in which Dean is going to lose a portion of his current support to Dean.
No matter HOW Dean and his supporters try to spin it, Deans attempts to reverse the Bush Tax cuts, are a tax increase, and Kerry's plan to keep the poritons of the cuts to give to the middle class will be FAR more popular with them than Deans proposals. Republicans will call the attempts to repeal the cuts a tax increase adn Kerry is the only person stating that he is going to let the middle class KEEP what they got, while assiting the states in order to get the states to be able to lower the taxes they had to raise in order to deal with the Bush cuts to state finding.
One if the things in the 2000 elections that Democrats had to Deal with were the massive popularity of Bush's proprosed tax cut, andtheir dissilusionment with the reality of the cuts, the bulk going to the wealthy.
August 17, 1999:
Would you vote for this man? Polls continue to show little sign of progress for the Vice President, and he even sinks to 25% in the latest Fox poll during a three-way matchup with Governor Jesse Ventura. Things are so tough that Bill Bradley has even pulled to within single digits in the Fox poll. Elsewhere, Gallup finds that voters would be kind to lawmakers who vote for the GOP tax cut plan, although this could change rapidly when considering the President's rhetorical skills.
http://www.evote.com/index.asp?Page=/polls_section/1999-08/archive.aspDean supporter revisionist history of the 2000 election state that the Bush tax cuts were unpopular and unsupported, but information from that period states quite the opposite.
4) PROVIDE TAX RELIEF TO MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES RATHER AND CRACK DOWN ON UNFAIR RELIEF FOR CORPORATE AMERICA. President Bush has turned a blind eye to struggling American families, despite the fact that today’s two-earner families are earning 75 percent more than their single earner family counterparts a generation ago, but they have less money to spend due to soaring housing costs, day care, college tuition, and health care. John Kerry would:
Keep the Middle Class Tax Cuts to Help Families Make Ends Meet. John Kerry believes that we should keep the middle class tax cuts that Democrats fought for in 2001 and 2003, which increased the child tax credit, reduced the marriage penalty and lowered tax rates. He strongly disagrees with Democrats who want to repeal these tax cuts, which would cost a typical middle-class family with two children an additional $2000.
Help Americans Get Ahead.
College Tax Cut: John Kerry will help Americans get ahead with his new “College Opportunity Tax Credit” by ensuring college is available for four years for every American.
Helping Create Wealth in the Stock Market: John Kerry opposes the dividend tax cuts in the 2003 tax bill that result in receptionists paying higher tax rates than CEOs. However, he does believe that middle class Americans should get more from their investments and will lower capital gains and dividend taxes for the middle class.
http://www.johnkerry.com/news/releases/pr_2003_0828.htmlThe Deans ideas on repealing the Bush tax cuts are attackable from MANY directions, but so far, Dean has been runniing a sole campaign with the other candidates not really running so far.
It has been stated almost from the beginning, that only a candidate who can provide financial relief to the states without fiscally effecting the middle class will be able to get middle class, and in particular, blue collar middle class support.
Deans plan does as more harm to the middle class than Bush's tax cuts have, as they remove the tax cuts they received under Bush, without removing the higer rates they must now pay at the state level.
Deans plan ends up with the middle class paying more out in their paychecks for federal income taxes, while also paying the increased state taxation.
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