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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: chalu2 who wrote (12196)2/23/2000 7:18:00 PM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
McCain's economics advisor admits that McCain knows little about tax policy, that McCain never paid attention:

...The Republican primaries have shown McCain as a hard political battler as he racks up key wins against Bush, who began the race as firm favorite. But behind the scenes the Arizona senator has been cramming up on taxes and other issues because, when it comes to economics, McCain is a novice.

"John McCain needed someone to teach him what was going on in the tax literature because as (chairman) of the (Senate) Commerce Committee he had never really paid much attention to it, he admitted it," McCain economic adviser Kevin Hassett told a group of business economists on Wednesday of his first meeting with the candidate last year.

"At the end of the meeting John said, 'I never paid attention much to taxes, but if I'm going to be president I need to learn that stuff and I want you to teach me,"' he said....
http://foxnews.com/elections/022300/mccain_economy.sml
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