Mr. Bush liked to tell his supporters that “John Kerry is going to raise your taxes” when in fact that was only the case if they managed to be one of the top one percent of Americans. Most of the rest would have received tax cuts under a Kerry administration. Well, apparently he really didn’t have a problem with Kerry’s idea of raising taxes on a portion of the population - he just thought Kerry was choosing the wrong portion:
To pay for that and the more generous savings accounts, the “least radical” proposal would eliminate the itemized deduction for state and local income taxes, while imposing a tax on Social Security benefits and employer-provided health care benefits.
Pay state and local taxes? Your taxes are going up a few thousand a year. Get healthcare through your employee? Yep, your taxes will go up a few thousand as well.
Interestingly enough, if you’re VERY, VERY rich, you’re going to get a big tax CUT in the form of the elimination of the Alternative Minimum tax and the Estate Tax. Imagine that, you mean to tell me that this President is planning on RAISING taxes for the majority of Americans so he can fund yet ANOTHER tax cut for the rich? Don’t be fooled - when tax reform is “revenue neutral” and includes big tax cuts for the rich, it means that the rest of us had better check for our wallets.
There are Mr. Bush’s moral values for you. Screw the poor and the middle class in order to pay back his rich supporters.
It’s looking more and more like our military’s use of torture was far from isolated. In fact, it looks like it may have been ordered by the President, himself:
Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union “suggest that President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq.”
I wonder how many seconds it would have taken for the Republicans to launch impeachment hearings into Clinton had he done the same thing?
As much as I would like to believe that these charges would lead to the Democrats retaking Congress in 2006 and then impeaching him AND his Vice President, I fear that the 51 percent of the American people who voted for Bush in November don’t care much about how evil our policies are as long as they believe he is keeping us safe…
So much for “moral values.”
This is straight from the “What the Hell Were They Thinking?” Department:
President Bush “heads into his second term amid deep and growing public skepticism about the Iraq war, with a solid majority saying for the first time that the war was a mistake and most people believing that” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld “should lose his job,” according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
We elect Presidents like major corporations appoint CEOs - poor performance shouldn’t get in the way of a good reward.
Unless you voted against this President in the last election, you should have no gripes about how the war in Iraq is going. You’re getting what you paid for.
