***Elect
Hobie Homepage*** These Pages will make you laugh, cry, and
Mad As Hell! The Complete GEE-DUBYA GUIDE TO TAX CUTS COMPASSIONATE Words,
CONSERVATIVE
Deeds
RULE #1 PICK
THE RIGHT TAXES TO CUT
There's a heck of a lot of taxes out there... some of them we don't
even know about, and the ones we do are pretty technical...
that's
why most of us just close our eyes and sign. But the first rule
is
to cut the taxes my good Pioneer Friends and I pay, like federal income
taxes and the death tax... I mean before we had to ask hundreds
of
people to give $1,000 each... now we can get $100,000, or
$500,000,
or even more from one person.... It's just the Circle of
Politics:
those that got give, and those that give get.... And don't even think
about
cutting FIKA taxes... not even Cheney knows how we're going to pay all
those baby-boomers retirements and medical bills... although
they've
all had lots of warning to make some big money and get healthy like I
did...
RULE #2 PICK
A NUMBER
I call my tax-cut the Goldilock Plan because the number we picked is
"not too big, and not too small, but just right." We came
up
this number way back in 1999 to beat Forbie... It's a darn good number
and I've stuck with it no matter what... I mean it would be really
confusing
if we changed the number every time the economy sputtered or
something....
so One Point Six Trillion is it (and besides it beats the heck
out
of my Dad's 1,000 points of light vision thing...) When I was in
school there weren't any trillions... that's why the world is so much
more
confusing now.
RULE #3 RUSH
THE TAX CUTS THROUGH CONGRESS
We gave the House 2 hours to debate my $1.6 trillion tax-cut plan...
and I use the word "debate" in its expansionistic meaning... all the
Democrats
did was holler and whine... talk about anti-bi-partisianship. But
just like in sports, you need the "Big Mo..." if you don't have
momentum
you can't move... And what about El Taco Grande Greenie coming
out
for my plan, sort of... does he know who's side the texas toast is
buttered
or what...
RULE #4 IT'S
NOT THE PLAN BUT THE PACKAGE
The economists can argue over every teeny-tiny decimal in the plan,
but we need be focused that this plan will help the working middle
class
because they get the biggest percentage cut... no one has disputed
that...
but since some seem not to find that to be an understandable math idea,
I've got a real simple example... saving $50 out of $500 is better than
saving only $50,000 out of $600,000....
RULE #5 PASS
THE TAX CUT BEFORE GIVING BUDGET DETAILS
You know how Washington works... as soon as you slow the rate of
growth
of the budget down, the people who rely on that money attack you as
some
sort of Grinch... I mean it depends on whose ox is goring whose
longhorn...
Some are saying the surplus projections are shaky... but they're always
shaky and so we've got to make make hay before ole Strom flatlines...
And
besides some small part could be your money... Just don't
blindside
me with trick number questions... unless they're on batting averages....
RULE #6 CUT
A LAST-MINUTE DEAL AND WIN
Of course we'll have to compromise... but you don't bluff by folding
early... so we can make some deals at the last minute and still get the
biggest tax cut in 30 years... which our big soft-money donors will
really,
really like... and we might even pick up some of those Democratic
fat-cats
too... they know who's filling their pockets in this fight... and it
isn't
the D's... And above all we must all live by the Golden
Rule...
the Political Golden Rule that is: those that have the gold,
rule....
Next: The Real Facts
About
Dubya's Tax Cut Plan or Back to Elect Hobie Prepared 03/24/01 Original material and format only copyright 2001;
other material copyright by holders; see the Elect Hobie Homepage; Distribution
encouraged
with attribution.