Their party's leaders Bill Clinton and Al Gore seem to believe telling the truth is negative. The Clinton-Gore team campaigned eight years ago on a pledge to cut taxes on the middle class. Instead, it imposed the largest tax increase in history. Gore has changed his positions almost as many times as he has changed his clothes. It's a tax we pay to current retirees, hoping the generation behind will do the same for us.
Real investment generates compound interest on our own money.
Having flipped once, Gore flipped again when he proposed his own stock-market investment plan after polls showed the idea was gaining favor. Unlike Bush's plan, Gore's plan leaves government in control of the investing. President Clinton once suggested that government knows best where to invest your money. In 1988, Gore bragged about his tobacco expertise, claiming he once farmed the leaf. Eight years later he demonized tobacco while talking about the death of his sister from lung cancer.