Bush says Democrats would raise taxes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bush

MACON, Ga. - President Bush portrayed Democrats on Tuesday as the party of big spending and high taxes, aiming to give increasingly endangered Republicans an edge in a midterm election debate dominated recently by congressional scandal and overseas crises.

"If you want to keep your tax cuts, vote Republican on Nov. 7," Bush said at a fundraiser for former Republican Rep. Mac Collins, who is seeking a comeback to Congress. He is challenging Rep. Jim Marshall (news, bio, voting record), seen as one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents.

"Next month, our nation has got this choice to make," the president said. "Do we keep taxes low so we can keep this economy growing? Or do we let the Democrats in Washington raise taxes and hurt the economic vitality of this country? ... This decision will have a huge impact on the working people all across the United States of America."

On Tuesday, though, the parts of Bush's remarks that went after Democrats on taxes were given to the reporters traveling with the president on Air Force One and also, to maximize their exposure, disseminated by e-mail to hundreds more on the White House press list.


U.S. President George W. Bush reacts to a child calling out his name during a fundraiser for the campaign of Georgia Rep. Mac Collins in Macon, Georgia, October 10, 2006. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES)

"The Dems will raise your taxes!!!!"

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How about this:
The Dems will raise your taxes, if you make over 250,000 dollars a year, and the pukes will molest your children.

I think they could start paying off some of the massive deficit they created, as a gesture of good citizenship and fairness.

sooner or later some generation is going to have to start paying off the debt and working to face the "long emergency". The sooner the better.

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people running small biz are getting reamed while folks who don't need it and live on investments pay nothing

she gets so steamed every March/April she's almost impossible to talk too.....

They could give two shits about people.

BTW: Isn't paying $2.50 to $3.00 a gallon for gas a form of taxation?

We're going to raise taxes to pay for your mess. Deal with it.

That's what Clinton did and everything balanced.

Mr. Bush is so fucking used to having an unlimited credit card in his personal life, he thinks that extends to the entire country.

Democrats will raise taxes on big business and rich people by repealing his tax cuts and maybe making them higher with pollution taxes. Anyone making over 250k a year who whines about this is selfish.

Common folk like you and me will stay in the same tax bracket...those are the people the rightwing likes to scare by yelling "Democrats will raise your taxes!" The righties tend to mistakenly believe they are in the same financial bracket as we are.

What they mean is, "Democrats will raise MY taxes!!"

The Rich are a lot of things but they ain't dumb. If the tax cuts do get repealed some of those rich business owners are going to recoup the money by laying off workers so some of us will get hurt by it. That my friends is a fact.

Here in Michigan, there are no workers.

President Bush portrayed Democrats on Tuesday as the party of big spending .....

To me 250 million a day in Iraq is big spending. What a dangerous little
man.


BTW can bush's nose get any redder?

revenue.

There is a huge debt to service.

There are huge national infrastructure problems.

The Military, particularly the Army, Marines and R/NG have huge needs regarding repair, refitting and replacement of capital equipment.

profiteers.

Why should average Americans have to keep paying?

The estimated population of the United States is 299,674,095
so each citizen's share of this debt is $28,548.22.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$1.66 billion per day since September 30, 2005

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War: 2747

http://icasualties.org/oif/


Cost of America's War in Iraq
$333,067,892,137


See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

I wonder if they'd take mine in one lump sum... lol

Health care costs go up? Hundreds of new fees crop up in the last four-five years?

We sure have in Minnesota.

Gov. Pawlenty, a Repuke with his head far up Bush-Cheney's ass, tried to cut Meals on Wheels for shut-in seniors and our sliding fee health care program for the working poor in order to pay for Bush's tax cut (x 2) for the wealthiest.

Only truly clueless or evil rich people buy that crap about "raising taxes" anymore.

my property tax has gone 30%
and health care has doubled

gas, food, medicine, college tuition, everything.

Our median family income is less than it was in 1999.

Not many people like to talk about this but the tax assessments went up all over the place just after W got in office because Federal Government funding to localities dried up due to the first round of tax cuts. Localities were forced to raise assessments (not rates mind you that would be "raising taxes" ) and the housing market bubble was expanded.

They do all have something to do with the other.

In their small minds, each of these things is independent of the other - national decisions do not affect local decisions.

I don't think they'd get a clue if Colonel Mustard himself presented it on a silver platter.

he gets EVERYTHING wrong?

All of his predictions about Iraq and everything else are dead wrong.

Nothing but lies. It's a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The "private" tax, that is, a tax that benefits only the oil companies.
Or increasing cost of health insurance...another "tax". Or housing, food, etc.

Is that all he has now?

are robbing the SS trust fund to give themselves big tax cuts and huge pork-barrel sweetheart contracts for their goddamn stupid war in Iraq and that yes once again the Democratic Party is going to have to clean up the mess that the theives and liars in the Republican Party have made. It is going to be hard work cleaning up this mess, as this is one of the worst messes these crooks have ever made, and we just might have to restore most of the corrupt and unsustainable tax cuts they gave themselves in order to protect social security and medicare, but we americans are hard working responsible people and we are up to the challenge.

Instead we will run away from the tax issue.

We can handle the knowledge that the US is now a nation that supports torture, we can deal with the fact that we illegally invaded another country and have royally screwed them up for generations to come, we can handle the fact that our planet is disintegrating and that the Republican party is laced with crooks and perverts, but FOR GOD'S SAKE, don't raise taxes! That would just be too awful for words.







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Is this man even in reality - ever? We as a country and esp. dear ole bush and company we should be ashamed of ourselves at what we owe in debts. Thanks to the egomaniac in office and the lame excuse for a Congress, who have been spending our monies faster then we can afford - including the billions of dollars our govern. is putting into war with no idea in sight when that will stop. As well as the unbelievable deficit that we owe - which the b.s. bush did NOT inherit from the Clinton Admin. And that deficit according to reports includes a daily average of borrowing from China of approx. 2 billion dollars -- that of course is on top of what we already owe. If that alone doesn't bring a huge red flag to us a so-called "Super Power", then what exactly do the American people think it means in terms of politics and having to a** kiss with China in return?

And how could I forget junior's views on spending of our hard earned money through taxes -- right after the Nov. 04 election he openly bragged that he earned this money and heeez agonna spend it! And he sure has.

Republicans like to appease the public by promising lower taxes. Sounds great, except they can't have it both ways. Not unless they have some amazing magical powers. With the debts we owe plus other spending, unless they can come up with better solutions - not promises, but solutions to pay off those debts and get us out of the red, then like it or not, it will have to involve raising taxes. I live in reality, not their fantasy world.

Just curious, because I feel like I pay a shitload in taxes.

Let's be honest, the only groups in this country that are enjoying the benefits of relatively low taxes are big corporations, and the very rich.

How about this:
Bush will be responsible for more deaths of American soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and ???
He will also be responsible for more deaths of civilians in Iraq.
He will be responsible for more countries on their way to a nuclear bomb because he indirectly threatened them.

What? Ah yeah, we don't care about the annyoing dead people. Only the money counts.

as a result of a natural disaster.....

No answer, just as I thought.

The "Spend and Spend" party cares not how it gets paid, as long as it's someone else's problem!

Idiot Repukes - this is how you're being played like a cheap Sega Genesis. There IS no free lunch. Wake the fuck up. NOW.

"The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end".
-Maximus (Gladiator)

Since jagoff has been in office I've seen my Student Loan rates go up, I've seen the price of nearly everything ESPECIALLY groceries go up thanks to the spikes in inflation, and I've seen gas prices more than double what I remember them to be.


Meantime the corporations, churches, and mega rich get to wallow in their tax breaks while I have to do my part to make up for their share.


I'm tired of being your fucking credit card asshole. Please go find a bag of preztels.

the statement is so lame it's hopeless. The only thing they'll raise is the temperature in the WH when we get subpoena power and investigate the shit out of your mis-deeds.

you know, Nancy should just come right out and say, is Bush claiming he won't veto a tax increase?

for EVERYTHING!

It has to be done in everyday terms and it's so EASY..

example:

Your kid's college account has $50K in it..

your drunken uncle gets his hands on your account information, and uses the money for a spectacular parties for his friends..

you discover the loss, and need the money back..

are you asking for him to GIVE you 50K or are you asking him to "pay you back"?

our government TOOK social security OVERAGES and gave it to rich people in the form of INCOME TAX REDUCTIONS..

Rich people only pay FICA on the first $87K they earn ...Most of us pay FICA on every penny WE earn, while a rich person "maxxes out" in the first few minutes of every new fiscal year.

The drunken uncle analogy is perfect!

All they hear is, "Democrats will raise your taxes!"

They stop listening after that, tripping over themselves to get to the polls to vote for the Republicans who won't "raise their taxes."

And Foley says he will 'raise' pages......................

Will they have the balls to raise taxes on the wealthy and cut taxes for the poor and middle class??

WEAK. LAME. And very OLD.

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There is just no end in sight.

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Tell me again how much that WAR of yours is costing, Dumbya?

Oh yea, http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-08-26-iraq-war-clock_x.htm">$177 million PER DAY - $2000 per second (in 2004, at that!).