Word: tax-cutting
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...middle of his candidacy was always going to be a tax cut. The party faithful would expect it; the threat from Forbes, with his $40 million war chest and his 17 percent flat tax, demanded it. But Bush also knew that the polls showed most people did not feel overtaxed; that Republicans in Congress were being filleted for their attempts at an $800 billion tax-cut plan. They traveled the country to drum up support in August 1999 and didn't come across...
...Bush was confident he could navigate the tax-cut terrain. After his first successful legislative session as Texas governor, when he and the Democrats in the legislature had cut deals on welfare and juvenile-justice reform, Bush proposed a total overhaul of the unfair property-tax system. His plan was widely viewed as a make-or-break gambit. "He absolutely cannot politically afford for it to fail," wrote the Houston Chronicle at the time, if he had any hopes of higher office. His plan would have slashed property taxes as much as 40 percent, but made up the lost revenue...
...screaming crowd of several thousand. "I ask for your support so I can fight for you, so I can fight for your families, so I can fight for your future." The evil that Gore will fight hardest against in the final weeks? George Bush's Social Security and tax-cut plans...
...about their parents' health-care costs. They like Bush's education record as well as his plan to use vouchers to rescue children from failing schools, and his "prosperity with a purpose" pitch has been hitting home with them too. But when he got lost in the thickets of tax-cut policy, they started leaning toward Gore, who promises to give their parents a prescription-drug benefit and pour money into their kids' schools...
...about their parents' health-care costs. They like Bush's education record as well as his plan to use vouchers to rescue children from failing schools, and his "prosperity with a purpose" pitch has been hitting home with them too. But when he got lost in the thickets of tax-cut policy, they started leaning toward Gore, who promises to give their parents a prescription-drug benefit and pour money into their kids' schools...