| Anonymous | Saturday, October 07, 2000 - 09:30 pm
"The current tax code, justified by the folks in Washington, if you're a single mother, making $22,000 a year, and say you're trying to raise two children — one, you're working the hardest job in America ... secondly, for every additional dollar she earns, she pays a higher marginal rate on that dollar than someone making $200,000 a year.
"She starts to lose her earned income tax credit. For the first time she's in the 15 percent bracket. When you add another 15 percent, 16.2 percent payroll tax on top of it plus 2.9 payroll tax and the Medicare tax, 16.4 percent. You end up with a high marginal rate and that's not fair. We're going to do something about it."
There was a pause, during which the Texas governor leaned away from his microphone and toward his younger brother Jeb, the popular governor of Florida. Those closest to them said the elder Bush appeared to be checking his arithmetic, to see if the numbers were right.
Apparently, the answer was no, because the Texan recovered by throwing out random percentages: "Fifteen-point-three percent. Twelve-point-four. Two-point-nine. I was trying to do some fuzzy math. I used his calculator." |
| Glenn | Thursday, September 21, 2000 - 10:42 am
As the 2 major candidates hit all of the TV talk show circuits, I'm sure that they'll be saying some things that make everyone say, "huh"?
However, I actually like some of the responses that I've heard from Bush recently.
On Oprah, she was pushing George for some of his past activities that he "required forgiveness for." He replied, "I know that you want to know, but I'm running for President." Fantastic answer!
On Regis' show:
And when Philbin asked, "Do you think the best man always wins?" Bush was quick to answer.
"I didn't think so in 1992," he said. |