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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (214840)	1/4/2002 6:50:10 PM
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Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) on Friday criticized the Bush administration's economic policies and claimed the administration's $1.35 trillion tax cut has consumed the budget surplus and left the government financially unprepared to fight both a war and a recession. Daschle also presented a plan that he said would stimulate the economy, aid the unemployed, reduce the tax burden on businesses and keep interest rates low. In response to Sen. Daschle's remarks, Cato Senior Fellow Alan Reynolds said: "Sen. Daschle once again takes the side of tax collectors rather than taxpayers. 'Low interest rates,' Daschle claims, 'are the best possible tax cut.' But interest rates do not rise and fall with the U.S. budget. That is simply a hoax. "Japan has the world's lowest interest rates and the world's biggest budget deficit. Besides, if taxes were less onerous, American families and firms would not have to borrow so much. Trying to fix the government's budget at the expense of family budgets is a bad idea that never works." Chris Edwards, Cato's director of fiscal policy, said: "Daschle perpetuates an urban myth when he argues that tax cuts cause higher interest rates through the federal budget balance. After all, we went from a huge surplus last year to near-zero surplus this year while interest rates have fallen. Where is Daschle's evidence that Bush's tax cut affected interest rates? "A stranger contradiction is Daschle's straddle on the effectiveness of tax cuts. In the same breath Daschle claims President Bush's tax cut was too big, then implicitly admits that tax cuts are the best economic medicine by laying out his own tax cut plan." newsalert.com.