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...know how to stimulate the economy. It is relatively inconceivable that Al could lose an election after such growth in the piggy bank. He failed to emphasize how George's tax-cut plan would put this economy at risk, opting to endlessly repeat that it would only benefit the wealthiest one percent. For Al to be voted out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is like Jack Welch, the captain of General Electric, being fired by his stockholders--it makes little, if any, sense. Al failed to capitalize on our unprecedented wealth...
...greatest irony of the concept of Utopia is that people are still searching for it when, at the dawn of the 21st century, most citizens of the world's industrial democracies are already living in one. Does anyone doubt that if we could communicate with any person--even the wealthiest and most privileged--who lived much before 1900, and told them that we live in a time when even ordinary people have clean clothes and houses, nutritious food and potable water with which to bathe and cook, the freedom to quit any job we dislike, the ability to hear symphonic...
...part of the wealthiest one percent of Americans? Are you a middle class American? What is your current marginal rate of taxation? Would you have been able to calculate your marginal rate of taxation if you had not taken Economics 1010 and 1011? Will you be able to calculate your marginal rate of taxation in 2004 after several years without Economics 1010 and 1011? If not, record appropriate formulas as well...
IMPACT: Nearly everyone gets a tax cut--particularly the wealthiest third of taxpayers. The long-term effect is cloudy: Bush argues that his cuts will encourage the economy to keep growing, but the cuts could lead to inflation, and if things turn sour, ballooning deficits could return. And Congress is currently spending a fifth of the surplus...
...IMPACT: Nearly everyone gets a tax cut - particularly the wealthiest third of taxpayers. The long-term effect is cloudy: Bush argues that his cuts will encourage the economy to keep growing, but the cuts could lead to inflation, and if things turn sour, ballooning deficits could return. And Congress is currently spending a fifth of the surplus...