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To: gao seng who wrote (215307)	1/7/2002 9:49:59 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

DASCHLE’S Well, it's on, I guess. The battle between the Democrats, intent on taking control of the Congress in 2002 and the presidency in 2004, and the Republicans, intent on lowering the hideous tax burden on those who really do fuel our economy. Daschle set forth his economic agenda last Friday ... and it was pure Democrat. Increase the size of government and increase government spending on benefits that are aimed at traditional Democratic constituents. And ... above all ... do not under any circumstances allow high-achievers to keep one more penny from their earnings than they are allowed to keep right now. Class animosity and class warfare must be maintained. I’ve told you before – and now is as good time to remind you again – that the Democratic agenda is as clear as it is diabolical. Democratic economic policy is aimed at accomplishing one goal … creating a huge paternalistic government that can be almost completely funded by a small minority of taxpayers. Every single element of the Democratic economic and tax agenda moves them inexorably toward that goal by addressing one of two necessary tasks. The first task is to make sure that high income earners are not given any tax relief. This is where the Democrats vote-purchasing money comes from! That dreaded and demonized top one percent of taxpayers is only earning about 17% of the income, but they are paying about 30 percent of the taxes! Daschle needs that money to spend on Democratic constituents! Even allowing as little as a one percent income tax cut for these evil rich people – who are most likely to vote Republican anyway – will make it that much harder for Daschle’s class warfare army to accomplish the second necessary task. And just what is the second essential task? That would be to completely remove Democratic voters from any responsibility for the payment of federal income taxes in the near term, and payroll taxes in the long term. Right now it’s safe to say that the lowest 45 percent of income earners in this country have no real federal income tax liability at all. The Democrats, with no small amount of help from the hapless Republicans, have packed the tax code with so many tax credits, deductions and exemptions, and are working on so many more, that it is a matter of just a few years before the majority of income earners will pay no income taxes at all. Can you understand where this is leading us? Well, I’ll assure you, the Democrats can. It will lead us to a situation where Democrats will be able to gain and maintain complete and absolute control of the entire congress of the United States by simply taking money away from a minority of voters – voters who have a propensity for voting Republican anyway – and transferring that money to the remaining majority in the form of government social programs and outright grants. We can put this much more simply. The Democrats will be able to use the police power of government to seize money from a minority of the people who’s votes they don’t need in order to transfer that money to the majority of people who’s votes they do need. That, my friends, is the foolproof formula for unending leftist political power. Wait --- it actually gets worse. Remember the tax cut debates at the beginning of 2001? The Democrats wanted rebate checks sent to people who actually paid no income tax at all? What possible justification could they present for such a handout? Their justification gave a clue to future plans. They excused these rebate checks on the basis that even if these people didn’t pay income taxes, they did pay Social Security and Medicare taxes. Now the more learned and astute listener will immediately think “But Social Security and Medicare taxes are actually fees, premiums if you will, paid now for guaranteed benefits to be received later.” Exactly so! And were the Democrats suggesting that benefits should be adjusted to these people, their constituents, who get refunds of their payroll taxes? Of course not! So, where does this leave us? Easy! Just connect the dots. Once the Democrats manage to transfer the entire income tax burden to the top 30 percent or so of income earners, they will begin working on transferring the entire Social Security and Medicare burden to the high income earners as well! Anyone in those targeted higher income groups who dares protest will, of course, be branded as lacking compassion for the “less fortunate” and as just plain selfish. So, my friends, this is what Daschle is fighting for. A defeat-proof leftist, Democratic congress. He knows that the average American is not bright enough to understand the economic equations involved. He also knows that the mainstream media will never detail the ultimate long-range Democratic Party goal for the American people the way I have here. boortz.com

To: gao seng who wrote (215307)	1/7/2002 9:53:08 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

What goes around comes around. When Clinton was President, Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott played the same role with the same tactics used by Daschle. If Bush is able to convince a great majority of the American people of his position, Daschle will come around. Bush's problem is not Daschle. His problem is his pro-rich economic agenda.