| Bush is for the few, the powerful, the campaign contributors. Everyone else gets the short end of the stick. Democrats agree on tax incentives for small business and ending the marriage tax, for instance, but even moderate Republicans like McCain are now firmly against tax cuts for the very wealthy. And as we have deduced now, the dividend tax cuts have little stimulative effect, hurt muni bonds, are mostly in 401k's anyway and mainly help the big stockholders of certain companies. While Bush may give $1000 to a middleclass family, he is also charging us all with a collosal debt which will make key services the middleclass needs unaffordable, scuttling ideas like prescription drugs, reducing college aid and aplethora of other things the middleclass alone takes advantage of. Entitlements already paid for may also be at risk in the future especially when the Baby Boomers retire en masse. Bush treats his contributors very well: oil, timber, mining, weapons, drugs, tobacco, pollutors of all kinds, but when it comes to the middleclass adn especially the lower class he's AWOL. |
