Class warfare'' is what Bush grumbles when debate turns to how come the rich get the gravy in the Bush scheme of things. There's also a generational tug here. New Hampshire is used to seducers dangling tax cuts under the noses of primary voters. Tax cuts have actually diminished as a vote trigger if you accept the polls. This Clinton-Gore economy is so strong, incomes so high, that the economic insecurity that destroyed Bush Sr.
Old houses clad in peeling paint eight years ago have two fresh coats of latex now.
Banks are not failing, they are flailing, trying to sell new products to a newly prosperous New Hampshire. But there remains a core of bottom-line voters to whom the promise of tax cuts is as seductive as gin to a toper. It is so much hogwash, natch. Bush vows spending billions more on the military, pricey new Star Wars gizmos, to make schools better, bolster Social Security and Medicare, and do all this while forgoing a trillion bucks in revenue. Of course not.