"Kerry Denounces Special Corporate Favors"

BELOIT, Wis. (AP) - Democrat John Kerry, in a veiled swipe at Vice President Dick Cheney, said that he won't dole out special favors to corporations if elected president.

"My vice president of the United States will never meet secretly with polluters who want to rewrite the environmental laws," the presidential nominee told a cheering crowd packed into a hockey arena Tuesday.

The barb referred to Cheney, who met with industry officials while drafting proposals for new energy laws. Democrats want more information about those meetings and have argued that Cheney, the former head of the Halliburton Co., had allowed the loosening of clean air and water rules at the behest of corporations.

The town hall meeting was billed as an opportunity for Kerry to talk about the economy and his plan to balance the budget. Kerry wants to roll back President Bush's tax cuts for families making more than $200,000 annually and rid the tax code of narrow breaks that help powerful companies who contribute to political campaigns.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040804/D848DPQ01.html

How enlightened of him.

The other poster doesn't need the facts to make his/her "point"

It is supposed to be 'balanced' by an elimination of tax breaks for offshore revenue. But many say that any taxation of offshore revenue is unacceptable and the rate cut won't stop companies from subcontracting elsewhere to have their rate cut and off-shdoring too.

Kerry isn't cutting corporate taxes, and you know that. That's why you don't say that "Kerry is cutting corporate taxes across the board". You said "The corporate tax-rate cut is across the board"

Yes, the tax RATE is being cut, but corporate tax loopholes and deferrals are being eliminated to finance those rate cuts. The end result:

CORPORATE TAXES AREN'T BEING CUT (something you somehow neglected to mention)

The larger companies that would pay more on balance will subcontract out to foreign firms with abandon.

We lose.

Have you seen the movie 'Outfoxed' ?

Because the facts don't support your argument.

Q: "Why are you making things up like that?"

A: "Because the facts don't support his/her argument"

This definitely needed to be said.