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...also proposed streamlining Medicare, increasing military readiness, paying off the national debt by 2012, and adopting a flat, across-the-board capital gains...
...session was lively, as several audience members sparred verbally with Robinson on different issues. When one student said that an across-the-board capital gains tax would disproportionately favor richer Americans, Robinson responded, "Even bus drivers have stock portfolios these days. You're not going to tell me that they're rich...
...squabble over the richest 1% is both symbolic and a bit silly. Obviously, any across-the-board tax cut is going to deliver the biggest dollar savings to the wealthiest Americans - they are after all the ones paying the most tax. Bush's conservatism tells him that no one should have to hand over more than a third of his paycheck to the Federal Government and that a big tax cut strangles future government spending, stimulates the economy and, yes, trickles down. But he knows he can't sell the tax cut by talking about the fairness of giving high...
...would increase federal spending on our public schools by 50 percent, or $115 billion over 10 years, the single biggest expansion in a generation. Bush only proposes an additional $13.5 billion in spending over five years, less than one-fortieth the amount he wants to spend on an across-the-board tax cut that would primarily benefit the top five percent of income earners...
...almost three times as costly as Gore's and heaps most of its benefits onto wealthy Americans. Bush offers a couple of middle-class goodies--doubling the existing $500-per-child tax credit and reducing the marriage penalty--but since the thrust of his plan is an across-the-board cut, the wealthy folks who pay the bulk of the taxes would enjoy the greatest gains (the top tax bracket would drop from 39.6% to 33%). Bush would also repeal the estate tax, which in addition to providing needed relief to family farmers and small-business owners would deliver...