Bush Renews Push for Extending Tax Cuts

By Michael A. Fletcher and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005


Intensifying his efforts to focus more public attention on the economy, President Bush on Monday renewed his demand that Congress extend tax cuts on investment dividends and capital gains, saying they are vital to keeping the nation's economy growing.

Since 2001, Bush has been able to practically dictate tax policy to Congress. Tax cuts have passed each of the past five years, totaling $1.8 trillion over 10 years. But a tax-cutting call that was once readily heeded on Capitol Hill is now facing stiff resistance from lawmakers of both parties, who maintain that efforts to rein in the deficit cannot rely solely on cuts to programs for the poor.

Most of Bush's tax cuts will expire at the end of 2010, and Congress has so far not acted on his pleas that those sunset provisions be stricken -- a plea he made anew here at a John Deere-Hitachi plant.

"The United States Congress needs to make this tax relief permanent," the president said before a tableau of blue-collar employees in matching gray work shirts.




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/05/AR2005120500854.html

workers.

Made no sense at all but that doesn't matter to the bushies and the Stupid Party.

"We have all the fools in town on our side and that's a majority anywhere" Twain

I would hope that voters from all parties would take a long, hard look at a man and party who would extend huge tax cuts to the already very rich, while at the same time cutting much needed basic needs to the poor, the young, the disabled, the elderly; the "have-nots" of our United States.
Seems like a black and white issue, an issue that is more than worth spending one's vote on. A hypocrite is a hypocrite, and holding the office of our presidency does not give you a pass on basic morality.

Gave it to Doctors Without Borders.

Hey, I was in the Navy same years as you.

Doesn't make those cuts to the rich, while hurting the have-nots, right. Anchors aweigh. ( CT-R, all around the Pacific, D.C., Pensacola. You? )