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...patch up the edifice of the Great Society. The second is Gore's portrait of Bush as a faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does for new education, health-care and defense programs combined. Are Bush and Gore right about each other? Every campaign serves up a cartoon version of its opponent. But these two caricatures are worth examining, because doing so helps explain how each man would govern, where their records...
...That's why Gore worked so hard during the debate to discredit Bush's tax cut, referring to it 10 times as a plan that would give more to the wealthiest 1% (families that earn $319,000 a year or more) than Bush spends on health care, the prescription-drug benefit, education and defense combined. He wanted to brand Bush as a tax adviser to the plutocracy, but he appears to have had only modest success; in the TIME/CNN poll, just under half of voters agreed that Bush's plan "would enrich the wealthiest 1% of Americans." Given the high...
...Whether or not Gore's assertion is true depends on whether or not you include Bush's plan for repeal of the estate tax in the amount going to the wealthiest 1%. The Bush camp argues that the tax shouldn't be included, because not all estate-tax relief would go to the highest income bracket. But if even just half of it did, Gore's claim would be right...
...Under Governor Bush's tax cut proposal, he would spend more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent than all of the new spending he proposes for health care, prescription drug and national defense all combined," Gore said...
...famously sharp-fanged Gore that bared his teeth the most, having apparently decided beforehand on Bush's big weak spot: his tax cut and how much of the surplus Bush was handing to "the wealthiest one percent." (About $600 billion that Gore wants to spread around instead, to Medicare, education, paying down the debt. Wealthiest one percent. Medicare, education, paying down the debt. Repeat as necessary, and Gore did.) SEE IT: slow modem | fast modem | broadband...