Contrasting the Gore tax cut plan with the Bush tax cut plan is easy.
George W. Bush’s plan gives an across-the-board tax cut for all taxpayers. Yes, the wealthier get a larger tax break–they pay most of the taxes. But in Bush’s plan, the people who make less get a larger percentage tax cut, thus helping the less affluent much more than the affluent.
Al Gore’s tax cut is nothing more than another big government program. With Gore’s plan, a taxpayer will get a tax cut if he does what the government wants him to do, and if he falls within certain narrow segments of Gore’s largest support base. In no event, however, will “the rich” get a tax break. After all, tax breaks (in Al Gore’s world) should only go to “working families.” Still, after witnessing Gore and his surrogates on scores of talk shows the past several weeks, there has been no definition of “working families.” Would “working families” be defined as those with incomes of less than $50,000? $30,000? $100,000?
In fact, even on Mr. Gore’s campaign Web site in which he gives specifics about his tax cuts, he doesn’t give us his cutoff point between working families and the wealthy. Could it be because those who make more than $60,000 are considered wealthy by Gore’s definition and “don’t need a tax break,” as so many of his surrogates profess? Maybe Mr. Gore should finally come clean and tell those families of four making $60,000 a year that they don’t need a tax break.
The fact is, Mr. Bush feels that everyone who pays taxes deserves a break and can use the money as they see fit, while Mr. Gore believes that government should dictate how any tax breaks should be spent.
You can decide if you want the government to control more of your life, or if you want more control.
