Don't let Bush get away with this lie!

[CheshireCat]

Have any of you seen the website called THE DAILY MISLEAD? It is dedicated to exposing the lies and misleading statements of the Bushistas.

The article explains how Bush is attempting to sell his tax cut as one for small business.

We can't let him get away with this lie. Get all the info you need to counter this Bush lie in the following article.



Bush Claims of Small Business Tax Cuts Exaggerated


On a campaign trip to Michigan yesterday, President Bush echoed one of his familiar claims, saying "I want to remind people about is that the tax relief was geared toward small businesses...When you hear us talking about reducing all taxes on individuals, you really hear also the message that we're reducing taxes on small businesses." This statement is the most recent in a long line of similar assertions - an unscientific Lexis-Nexis search
shows, that in just the three years since Bush became President, he and Vice President Cheney have given at least 150 separate speeches claiming that their tax proposals are specifically geared to helping small business.

But simple statistics show just how misleading these statements are. In talking about his 2001 tax cut, the President specifically promised that there would be "more than 17.4 million small business owners and entrepreneurs who stand to benefit from dropping the top rate from 39.6% to 33%" - the major piece of his proposal.

But according to nonpartisan analyses of IRS and Treasury Department
data, just 3.7% of small business owners are subject to these top tax rates - meaning the rest receive almost nothing from the major piece of his plan. In other words, for every small business owner that benefits, there a are 15 small business owners that do not. All told, small business owners "would be far more likely to receive no tax reduction whatsoever from the Administration's tax package than to benefit" in any way.



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Read the Mis-Lead more about this Bush lie at:

http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1214572&l=10528

[underpants]

1. Great site! Even the Brookings Institute busted him on his "averages"

In fact, "nearly four out of every five tax filers (79%) with small business income would receive less than this amount," according to the nonpartisan Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center.5 Additionally, "52% of people with small business returns would get $500 or less." The President produced the $2,042 average figure by deceptively averaging the large tax cuts that would go to a small number of wealthy individuals who have some small business income with the miniscule (if any) tax cuts that would go to millions of more typical small business people.

[G_j]

8. that's one their favorite scams

..five unemployed people are in a bar. In walks someone with a salary of 5 million. The average salary of the people in the bar is now one million! not bad eh?

[G_j]

10. fuzzy math

I should have said there were FOUR people in the bar. But hey, who cares? My math is still better than theirs.

[CheshireCat]

2. This administration knows nothing but lies!

I think Bushes nose would grow if he told the truth!

[underpants]

3. What are they going to do tell the TRUTH?

We are fattening up all our rich friends at your direct expense of money and blood as well as dumping massive debt onto those not yet born all in an effort to force spending cuts to the programs we don't like.

[kentuck]

4. We should have known....

Whatever these hypocrites accuse others of, they themselves are guilty of in spades. When they said Al Gore was a "habitual liar", we should have known what was in store. (Like when Newt attacked Clinton for lack of morality) There is simply no way to keep up with the lies of this Administration.

[sam sarrha]

5. There have been so many..what is he big deal about another one?

he should have included a jar of Vaseline with the plastic and DUCT TAPE for terrorist attacks, so we could be prepared for the next Butt F*CK, that is really domestic terrorism, bend over and grab you ankles he has been talking to big business again. :shrug:

[rucky]

6. My Fantasy at the Presidential Debate:

Our nominee pulls out a huge stack of papers - documenting every Bush lie - and starts ticking off the list. Of course you couldn't get to every one of them, but just to see *'s face...

[CheshireCat]

9. I've had that fantasy, too.

I dream of seeing * confronted with his lies. I dream of him being in a situation where he cannot leave and is required to give answers. Preferably under oath.

OK. So I can dream.

[phillybri]

7. Great site...

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