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

To: American Spirit who wrote (368355)	3/7/2003 10:24:07 PM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

* Kerry's pro-choice though a practicing Catholic. When will he stop practicing and actually become one?

To: American Spirit who wrote (368355)	3/8/2003 7:42:22 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Respond to of 769670

Even worse the surplus being built up by Social Security is being used to make the deficit look smaller than it really is. If the Social Security Surplus wasn't included in the deficit figure mentioned in the Yahoo News article than the deficit for the next 5 years would be 1 trillion dollars larger. President Bush says he is concerned with the economy. But when I compare what he is doing with what he could be doing than I question his sincerity. For example if the Republicans with their 2001 tax cut package had cut taxes by 135 billion per year instead of being so heavily back end loaded we would be getting more stimulus now. Then the Republicans could have come up with a much better stimulus package for the economy in Oct 2001 than refunding alternate minimum taxes paid by corporations. That stimulus package would have refunded 250 million to Enron. Next there is a way to stimulate the economy now that would meet Allan GreenSpan's criterion of being revenue neutral. Just swap some of the back end tax cuts in Bush's 2001 tax cut package for tax cuts that would take effect now when the economy really needs help. Tax cuts that take place at the end of this decade don't help the economy now. Anybody want to bet which has higher priority with President Bush? Stimulating the economy now or making the tax policy more regressive.