posted on July 25, 2001 01:25:23 PM new"The Vice President is not reinventing the federal government, he is reinvigorating the federal government. And Americans will feel this influence in our own lives. We'll have to work through a maze of bureaucracy to get health care, or tax relief... How many of you own a rooftop photovoltaic system? Let's see the hands. Not too many. You're beginning to get the drift of 'targeted.' "
--Candidate George W. Bush at a Nov. 1 campaign rally in Minneapolis.
"On a third front, the House Ways and Means Committee may late this week approve tax breaks for purchase of photovoltaic solar systems in homes and for buying ultra-fuel efficient hybrid cars--both urged by the administration."
--July 17 Associated Press report by H. Josef Hebert.
posted on July 26, 2001 06:10:53 AM new"I love New York."
--George W. Bush, after swearing in 29 new U.S. citizens
on Ellis Island, as quoted in the July 10 Washington Post.
"Mr. Bush has been heard to say privately that he cannot
stand New York, and if one goes strictly by the numbers,
that should come as no surprise. New York preferred Al
Gore by a 59-to-35-percent margin. It has five registered
Democrats to every three Republicans, and its two
Democratic senators are almost certain 'no' votes on
most Bush programs. New York City, which Mr. Bush
visited only once during the campaign and whose mayor
clearly preferred Senator John McCain's candidacy, is
statistically even more hostile. Mr. Bush got 15 percent
of the city vote, against Mr. Gore's 77 percent."
posted on July 26, 2001 06:14:45 AM new
"I strongly believe we need to drop the top rate from
39.6 to 33 percent. (Applause.) I've heard all the
rhetoric about what that means, and so have you. But
overlooked in the political hyperbole that tends to take
place in our process is the fact that dropping the top rate
from 39.6 to 33 percent serves as a stimulus to small
business growth in America.
"The Treasury Department released a report earlier
today on small business owners who pay personal income
taxes and small businesses which pay at the highest rate
of 39.6. According to the Treasury Department,
nationwide there are more than 17.4 million small
business owners and entrepreneurs who stand to benefit
from dropping the top rate from 39.6 to 33 percent."
--President George W. Bush, in a March 16 speech to small
business owners.
"Most small businesses pay at the 39.6 percent rate."
--President George W. Bush, in a March 22 speech to the
National Newspaper Association.
"Mark, what's really going to be happening is 17 million
small businesses will be helped by this tax cut."
--Rep. Jennifer Dunn, in a March 17 appearance on
CNN's Capital Gang.
"In fact, fewer than five percent of these 17.4 million
individual and business owners and entrepreneur pay the
top rate. A total of only 691,000 taxpayers in the nation
(including taxpayers who are not small business owners)
paid the top rate in 1997, the latest year for which these
data are available."
--March 20 press release by the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities.
