Bush delivered his "haves" joke on camera three weeks before the 2000
election. In contrast to the joke that Bush told, Gore said the following:
"Gore joked, "The Al Smith Dinner represents a hallowed and important tradition, which I actually did invent." Lampooning his promise to put Social Security in a "lock box," Gore promised that he would put "Medicare in a walk-in closet," put NASA funding in a "hermetically sealed Ziploc bag" and would "always keep lettuce in the crisper.".................. (CBS News story on the same event.)"
Moore went on to use the footage of Bush in his movie. Doing so is apparently offensive to Mojo_PeiPei.
Bush went on to "accomplish" this: (Just a coincidence for his "base" ?)
Quote:
Tax Burden Shifts to the Middle
Presidential Campaigns Draw Differing Conclusions From Report
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 13, 2004; Page A04
Since 2001, President Bush's tax cuts have shifted federal tax payments from the richest Americans to a wide swath of middle-class families, the Congressional Budget Office has found, a conclusion likely to roil the presidential election campaign.
The CBO study, due to be released today, found that the wealthiest 20 percent, whose incomes averaged $182,700 in 2001, saw their share of federal taxes drop from 64.4 percent of total tax payments in 2001 to 63.5 percent this year. The top 1 percent, earning $1.1 million, saw their share fall to 20.1 percent of the total, from 22.2 percent.
Over that same period, taxpayers with incomes from around $51,500 to around $75,600 saw their share of federal tax payments increase. Households earning around $75,600 saw their tax burden jump the most, from 18.7 percent of all taxes to 19.5 percent.
The analysis, requested in May by congressional Democrats, echoes similar studies by think tanks and Democratic activist groups. But the conclusions have heightened significance because of their source, a nonpartisan government agency headed by a former senior economist from the Bush White House, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. The study will likely stoke an already burning debate about the fairness and efficacy of $1.7 trillion in tax cuts that the president pushed through Congress.
"CBO is nonpartisan, it's independent, and right now it works for a Republican Congress with a former Bush economist at its head," said Jason Furman, economic director of the presidential campaign of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.). "There's no higher authority on the subject." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61178-2004Aug12.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61178-2004Aug12.html</a>
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Bush's tax shift from the wealthy to the middle class, and his $422 billion
deficit, which is a bill that he will leave for our children to figure out how to
pay off, is offensive to me, and should also be for the vast majority of
Americans.