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Top 10 Questions About The Republican Tax Plan |
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25 Jan 2003
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Posted to the "Rush vs. Reality" MSN group |
Top 10 Questions About the Republican Tax Plan:
10. Why does giving more money to laid-off workers in the form of unemployment benefits encourage them to ``leave the workforce and be lazy`` while giving more money to the wealthy in the form of tax cuts encourages them to work harder at investing their money?
9. Why did the wealthy ask to share the sacrifice during World War I by having their taxes increased while the wealthy want to have their taxes cut during this war?
8. If the justification for a tax cut is economic stimulus, why give the money to the extremely wealthy who can`t spend all the money they have already, instead of the middle class who will spend it and create jobs?
7. If Bush`s tax cuts to the wealthiest 1% are supposed to stimulate the economy, why has our nation experienced record job losses month after month since his first tax-cut plan in March of 2001?
6. Why is the Administration proposing to cut taxes during a war for the first time in American history?
5. Why has the Administration chosen to cut the two taxes paid disproportionately by the wealthy (income and estate taxes) and do nothing about the taxes paid largely by the middle class (sales, property, and payroll taxes)?
4. Why did Mitch Daniels tell Meet the Press that we have the highest tax rates ever `for a peacetime economy` when we`re supposed to be at War with Terrorism?
3. Why are the fighting men and women, risking their lives overseas, also expected to spend the rest of their lives paying off the debt from that war in order to give a tax cut to billionaires?
2. Why are they proposing that billionaires and their heirs never pay a tax of any kind on most of the wealth in their portfolio? [There is already no capital gains tax on stock held when a person dies - and now they propose to eliminate the estate tax as well.]
1. Why is there such a high correlation between Bush campaign contributors and those who benefit from his tax cuts?
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