To: Neeka who wrote (42 ) 3/5/2004 12:21:46 AM From: American Spirit Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 681 Bush Lying Again About Taxes. Does he lie about everything? Bush Says Kerry Would Take Away Tax Cut Thu Mar 4, 6:35 PM ET Add Politics - AP to My Yahoo! By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - President Bush (news - web sites) charged Thursday that Democratic rival John Kerry (news - web sites)'s approach to recent tax cuts would be to "take them away" and use the money to expand the federal government. AP Photo Reuters Slideshow: President Bush Bush Mentions Kerry in Partisan Speech (AP Video) Latest headlines: · AP Poll Finds Bush, Kerry Tied in Race AP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago · Some 9/11 Relatives Angered by Bush Ads AP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago · Kerry Fund-Raisers Set $105 Million Goal AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago "I have a better idea: to keep this economy growing and to create jobs, the tax cuts must be permanent," Bush said at a fund-raiser where he banked more than $700,000 for a re-election war chest that already dwarfs Kerry's. It was the final stop on a two-day, $5 million dash through California for political cash. "My opponent has plans for the tax cuts. He wants to take them away," Bush said in Santa Clara. In fact, the Massachusetts senator and Bush both would keep in place key tax cuts that are due to expire at the end of the year: an increase in the child tax credit; tax reductions for some married couples who would pay more than they would as individuals; and an expansion of the bottom 10 percent tax bracket. Virtually the only area where they disagree on this issue is on Kerry's call to end tax cuts Bush signed into law for those earning more than $200,000 a year.