http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News ... 67,00.htmlBush: 'No point taxing rich'
8/10/2004
Washington - US President George W Bush said on Monday that there's no point in taxing the rich because they just dodge their tax bill anyway.
"Real rich people figure out how to dodge taxes," Bush said during a campaign stop in suburban Washington.
Bush's rival in the November 2 election, Democratic Senator John Kerry, has pledged to scrap the president's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in a bid to rein in the record US budget deficit.
"You've got to be careful about this rhetoric, we're only going to tax the rich. You know who - the rich in America happen to be the small business owners," Bush said.
As part of his re-election pitch, Bush has vowed to ask Congress to make permanent some of his tax cuts that are due to expire in coming years.
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http://www.augustafreepress.com/stories ... ader$24841The president ramps up Virginia campaign
08-10-04
...Economic issues also promise to play a key role in determining the final outcome. Bush did his part to get in a few words on that, attacking Democratic opponent John Kerry's plan to raise taxes on the wealthy as evidence of the "philosophical divide here in this campaign."
"Let me put it to you bluntly. In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life. And that's a difference. There's a difference in philosophy, when you think about it," Bush said.
"That's why you've got to be careful about this rhetoric, we're only going to tax the rich. You know who the ... the rich in America happen to be the small-business owners. That's what that means," Bush said.
"Just remember, when you're talking about, oh, we're just going to run up the taxes on a certain number of people ... first of all, real rich people figure out how to dodge taxes. And the small-business owners end up paying a lot of the burden of this taxation," Bush said.
Kerry's Virginia campaign spokesman, Jonathan Beeton, was also talking philosophical divides after the speech.
"We've already heard from President Bush that he thinks of the very rich as his base, so this is no surprise. He should know a lot about how the very rich live their lives," Beeton told The Augusta Free Press.
"But being very rich shouldn't give one an out to avoid supporting our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and paying your fair share for all of the other core needs that we share in this country," Beeton said.
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http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/vi ... s-virginiahttp://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases ... 809-3.html--
"We actually misnamed The War On Terror, it ought to be 'The Struggle Against Ideological Extremists Who Do Not Believe In Free Societies Who Happen To Use Terror As A Weapon To Try
To Shake The Conscience Of The Free World.'"
(Audience laughter.)
"No, that's what they do."
-George W. Bush,
Unity Conference
8/6/04