To: RON BL who wrote (126061 ) 2/8/2001 1:53:39 PM From: mst2000 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Wow. I don't recall the GOP ever proposing to cut payroll taxes, or ever proposing a tax cut more heavily wieghted toward working people than the richest 1% who are the blood and guts of the GOP. Second, tax policy begins in the White House, but the middle game and the end game is in the Congress. And the same is even more true for legislation. If you heard nothing about the working poor or the homeless in the last 5 years or so, you might want to start by looking at Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, who put the kabash on every single piece of progressive legislation proposed by the democrats during that period. The GOP is responsible for the lack of legislation addressing the issues fought about in the last campaign -- they were too busy trying to impeach Clinton, and killing in committee any decent piece of legislation proposed by someone on the democratic side of the aisle -- to work with the white House to address those issues. Gore screwed up big time in the last campaign by not making more of an issue of the GOP Congress's tactics to kill attempts to address such things as patients bill of rights, perscription benefits, more progressive tax policy, etc.
