From: cessna@kn5f.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Taylor Evert)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush
Subject: Re: Setting some of Bush/Quayle's lies straight...
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:38:49 GMT
Organization: Loral Space Information Systems

In article <1992Aug25.160219.6206@rock.concert.net> black@jazz.concert.net 
(Rob Black) writes:
> Bush said: "Gov. Clinton's plan would raise taxes on anybody who has
> a job."
> 
> The Truth: Clinton's plan would raise taxes ONLY on people making more 
than
> $200,000 per year. Apparently President Bush doesn't know anyone who has 
a
> job that pays less than $200,000.

Reality:  Clinton is proposing $120B in tax increases.  Do you really 
beleive all of that will only come from people earning $200K/yr.?   The 
government has plenty of ways besides income taxes to collect money.

> Quayle said: Bill Clinton will not create new jobs
> 
> The Truth: As Governor, Clinton created manufacturing jobs at 10 times 
the
> national rate. Bush and Quayle promised 15 million new jobs by now in the
> 1988 campaign. They are about 14 million short!

Reality:  Companies moved to Arkansas from places like California because 
housing and labor was cheap in Arkansas.  The net result was replacing 
higher paid workers with lower paid ones.

> Bush said: Clinton's tax plan will raise taxes on the middle class.
> 
> The Truth: Clinton's plan will CUT taxes on the middle class.

Reality:  Maybe this is true for income taxes, but will be more than 
compensated for by other taxes.

> Bush said: "Under Clinton's health plan, you won't be able to choose your
> own doctor."
> 
> The Truth: This is simply a lie. Clinton's plan offers all citizens the
> normal choice of doctors. It will also cut down on health care costs by
> taking on the insurance and drug industry giants.

Reality:  To be sure, socialized medicine will reduce the quality of 
health care as we now know it.  To show I am not completely biased, I do 
have a nit with the Bush platform because it does not effectively address 
the problem of rising medical costs.  The medical industry needs more 
incentive to compete on the basis of price.  Insurance masks much of the 
real cost to the consumer.  How many ads for hospitals, etc advertise low 
prices???

> Quayle said: Congress is to blame for the recession because they didn't
> implement the President's recovery package.
> 
> The Truth: Congress passed 6 of 7 items in the recovery package but Bush
> veteod them all. He rejected his own bill to protect some wealthy special
> interests.

Reality:  Congress added additional items to this package that Bush felt 
would be damaging to the economy.  In reality, I think Congress did some 
of that just to ensure that no package would be passed.  In fairness, I 
don't think Bush really wanted a package either, but was pressured into it 
by the media.  I think he wanted to let free-market economics lead the way 
to recovery which in fact is what is now slowly happening.   The great 
American management and quality expert, W. Edwards Deming, once told me 
that the economy would be far better off if government did not try to 
tamper with it since most of their short term solutions had negative long 
term implications (such as increasing the debt).  I often wonder if Bush 
was the first president to realize that.

> Bush said: I have tried to balance the budget, but Congress wouldn't let 
me.
> 
> The Truth: A President can submit a balanced budget at anytime. Bush 
NEVER
> did. Under Bush, the national deficit has doubled to $400 billion. Gov.
> Clinton balanced the Arkansas budget 11 times in a row.

Reality:  Bush's budgets did attempt to control spending.  I doubt that 
Clinton will submit a balanced budget if he is elected.  In Arkansas, he 
had no choice.  The Revenue Stabilization Act which was in effect long 
before Clinton came along mandates a balanced budget.  While 128 tax 
increases may be politically motivated,  it is safe to assume that Clinton 
balanced the Arkansas budget through tax increases and not by reducing 
spending.

Mark T. Evert
Friendswood, TX

My opinions are my own.