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Politics : IMPEACH GRAY DAVIS! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1294)	10/1/2003 4:34:16 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1641

If Dean tries to rescind middle-class tax cuts he'll go down like Mondale did. Being honest about taxes is a noble thing, but playing into Karl ROve's hands is another. Kerry is much smarter. He doesn't give Rove that kind of ammo. He'll keep the middle-class tax cuts and do away with his upper income tax cuts. That will bring in about 100 billion a year and gradually lower the deficits. Dean's plan tries to do it all at once and it is very bnitter medicine to swallow.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1294)	10/1/2003 4:39:05 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1641

You don't seem to understand the relationship between government spending and deficits. We never had a surplus. All the surplus talk by the pols before and during the last election used projected (in the future) numbers dependent on continued capital gains windfalls as had been seen in 1999. Check yesterday's WSJ, the top 1% got a 20% pay decrease between 2000 and 2001. The rich are getting poorer! Anyway, no surplus never materialized and the economy crashed under Clinton. There is no way Bush or Gore or anyone else could have stopped that, as I said in 2000. The issue now is cutting government spending.