Americans deserve tax cut

February 13, 2001

I hope Democrats are proud — and I’m sure they are — of their efforts to derail President George W. Bush’s $1.6 trillion 10-year tax cut plan.

Because of some intentional misguiding by Democratic leaders, Americans are amazingly divided over a tax cut plan being offered by a government that is too accustomed to taking our money, not refunding it.

So let’s get this straight: When Uncle Sam offers, we should grab our dough and run. It doesn’t happen often enough.

But some people are opposing these cuts because they believe Democratic lies that “only the rich” are getting “substantial tax relief.”

Already I’ve heard from some folks “disgruntled” about the little stunt Democratic Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle pulled last week — involving the use of a Lexus automobile to demonstrate how “big” the “rich’s tax cut” would be — worried the gimmick would prove effective.

In case you missed it, Daschle used a $40,000 Lexus at a news conference denouncing Mr. Bush’s plan to demonstrate how “rich people” would receive a tax cut large enough to be able to afford a new Lexus. While holding a $250 muffler, Daschle added that “average Americans” would only get enough money back to “buy this muffler.”

What Daschle, the pinhead, failed to mention was that folks who’d get about 40 grand in refunds can already well afford a Lexus as it is, because they’re making well over a million dollars a year. Daschle also failed to mention (har, har) that those making that kind of money per year also pay something like 93 percent of all federal income taxes.

What Daschle and his House counterpart, Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., also failed to mention was that Mr. Bush’s plan is about as “fair” and as “equal” as you can get, considering the cuts will be doled out to people according to what they make per year.

The people who would get $40,000 in tax reduction are still going to pay about $320,000 in income taxes next year. In other words, those “evil rich guys” (like Daschle and Gephardt, just a few Democrats who also don’t worry where their next meal is coming from) will still pay in taxes next year alone more than average people make in a decade.

But the point is, whether it’s a $40,000 refund or a $250 refund, Americans — who are decades overdue for this kind of tax cut anyway — are being treated right.

Daschle, however, is continuing to use typical Democratic scare tactics and the old “divide-and-conquer” strategy to convince everyone that nobody should get a refund because some people will get more than others in return.

Of course, Daschle’s “logic” is noticeably and intentionally flawed. People who make $40,000 a year are not going to get a $40,000 refund, but how many boneheads seriously believe they should get $40,000 back on a $40,000-a-year income? Apparently enough. Daschle and Co. know exactly what strings to pull in lying about these cuts.

What is truly shameful in the Democratic leadership’s response to Mr. Bush’s plan is that at the heart of it, these arrogant elitists — each of whom make more than enough of a tax-funded salary every year to buy their own Lexus (or several of them) — simply don’t want you to have more of your own money.

Oh sure, Democrats have said they’d prefer smaller cuts, but the reality is, they’d prefer no cuts. Can’t buy votes and hook more people on the federal dole without the people’s money.

Yet, few welfare recipients can afford to drive a second- or third-hand Chevy Impala — much less a Lexus. So why more people would prefer to remain on Daschle’s handout list is beyond me in the first place.

Still, the class-baiting is obviously an effective tactic, which is why Daschle and Co. are still using it.

Why is it so hard for millions of Americans to look past this class warfare crap and simply be happy with getting any amount of tax cuts? If Daschle, Gephardt and other Democrats have their way, no one would get a cut and then everybody loses.

Except tax-and-spend Democrats.

If you don’t think you’re getting enough money back, then tell your Democratic representatives and senators to quit fighting the administration and demand even more cuts. In a government that spends over $2 trillion a year, don’t tell me there is “no room for major cuts.”

This is our money, gang — not Daschle’s money. Anyone who tells you that you deserve more money back than you even make in a year is simply trying to confuse the issue and kill the entire notion of all tax cuts.

Don’t let them do it. Not this time. Demand your refund; regardless of what it is, you damned sure deserve it.