Bush Pledges $350 Billion Tax Cut to Registered Republicans
White House Asks for Big Partisan Pay-Off
JUNIOR BACON
The president attempts to justify his $350 billion tax cut to a group who showed up after seeing the “free blow jobs” sign.
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In a move being sharply criticized by Democrats, President Bush announced his plan for a $350 billion tax cut. The cuts would be specifically to registered Republicans and corporations, and Bush promised the reduced taxes would spark growth in the job market and turn the economy around.
Democrats have denounced the move as a blatant attempt to curry voter favor and sustain the president’s popularity, despite poor response to domestic issues. Bush’s plan for tax cuts to corporations, they say, is more of the same failed Reaganomic “trickle-down” theory operating on the premise that monetary breaks to companies will produce new jobs. As for the reduced taxes for registered Republicans, it is an unbelievable act of hubris by a president with elephant balls.
In addition to the expected backlash by Democrats, the president was dismayed to find some moderate Republicans among critics of the plan. Early response to the idea called initial figures for a $700 billion tax cut too high, and though the president regained some support by lowering the projection to $350 billion, there are still some moderates calling it bad timing for additional tax cuts.
“Don’t get me wrong, I could use that tax cut pretty bad,” said Ohio Sen. George Voinovich, a leading opponent to the Bush plan, “but we’re heading into belt-tightening times, we’re looking at a $2 trillion deficit. Just so the president knows, ‘deficit’ is the one that means we owe that much. As for the tax cuts for Republicans, I don’t even know if that’s constitutional… but either way, we need to be paying off our huge debts before we start giving money away again.”
Like other Bush critics, Voinovich is pointing to the expenses raised by Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the airline bail out following the incidents, the $100 billion Iraq war, and the projected $600 billion rebuilding cost for Iraq, all of which have turned the estimated surplus over 10 years into a deficit.
Though Voinovich agreed political rifts were dangerous to Republican solidarity, the senator felt that opposing President Bush on the tax issue wouldn’t hurt his long-term relationship with the White House.
“I will stick to my beliefs on the issue to best serve my conscience, and I’m sure the president will do the same. It is characteristic of our respect for each other to voice our disagreements.”
The interview with Voinovich was cut short as masked men rushed in through doors and windows to strap the senator to his couch. The men then proceeded to wallop Voinovich with black socks filled with bars of soap, their silence countered with the senator’s high-pitched shrieks of pain and tearful crying.
The White House would not comment on the hazing, only that they hoped Voinovich would see the wisdom of the Bush tax cut before any more pain was inflicted.
“It is vital and important to our economy that we encourage growth in the public sector,” said the president, or someone sounding like Bush while the president moved his lips. “Statistics we’ve funded show that tax cuts to corporations produce that kind of job creation. As for the tax breaks for registered Republicans, I can’t tell you what’s partisan or what’s vote-buying. What is important is that it is imperative to our administration’s long-term plans that I get elected in 2004. These tax cuts are designed for that purpose.”
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