From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: Re: Clinton's Tax Increases - A Little Truth
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Date: 20 Aug 92 15:32:41 PST
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In article <1992Aug20.161234.22649@csc.ti.com> dp writes:
> In article <16sl1mINNdmv@agate.berkeley.edu>, lazarus@ocf.berkeley.edu (Andrew J. Lazarus) writes:
> |> In article <1992Aug18.152407.18643@csl.sri.com> boucher@roche.csl.sri.com (Peter K. Boucher) writes:
> |> >"Clinton is a big spender"
> |> >   Arkansas ranks 50th in per-capita spending.
> |>
> |> >"Clinton is a big taxer"
> |> >   Arkansas ranks 49th in total per-capita state taxes (all types,
> |> >   not just income taxes).  Arkansas ranks 47th in taxes per
> |> >   dollar-of-income-earned-by-residents.
> |>
>
> I can here Slick Willie now: 'Look at the facts: in my country since I have
> been president we have had a few tax increases, but we still have the lowest
> tax rate of any country in the world with socialized medicine.' (Oops, I should
> have used the PC "Universal Health plan.")
>

You don't have to put words in Clinton's mouth.  You can just look at his
record.  He tried time and time again to increase state income tax without
success - it takes a 75% vote of the legislature to do that.  But there are
other taxes in the state that only require a 50% vote and every one of those
taxes was raised, raised, raised.  Not only did Clinton sign those tax bills,
he authored many and supported the rest.



> I'm a little surprised that Slick Willie hasn't pointed out that his fiscal
> plan will take us back to a world like the one that he grew up in back in
> Hope, Arkansas.  You know, the days when "we could leave the doors and windows
> unlocked."  After all, his tax plan will leave us with the same things that
> he supposedly grewup with in Hope  -  NOTHING !  (There's no need to protect
> what you don't have.)
>
> Now, back to reality.  This morning Clinton was asked about the Republican
> references that Arkansas had been rated 50th in environmental policy by
> an environmental watchdog group.  Clinton responded with the pat Democrat reply
> 'As you can see, they're desperate" (a "defense" which is wearing thin even
> with my "yellow dog Democrat" friends from Arkansas, I might add).  He then

Willie won't win his own home state.  The people there KNOW him.

> said that the facts are that under his leadership the state of Arkansas has more
> environmental funds available.  He did not mention what he had spent any of
> these funds, if any, for.  Perhaps Bush should freeze all spending by the EPA,
> Interior Department, and USDA (Forest Service) so that he could make the same
> claim at the national level - obviously not sound policy, but a prime way to
> backup Slick Willie style double speak.
>

Since 1989, defense spending fell from $348 Billion to $280Billion, but spending
on things Bush gets attacked for not supporting have gone UP by 20%.  Welfare,
Health care, education, aids research, etc.  But spending by the EPA, Interior
Department, and USDA at the national level has been FLAT.

>
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