Bush urges Congress to make tax cuts permanent

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Americans face a deadline for filing taxes, President George W. Bush on Saturday pressed Congress to extend tax cuts, saying they create jobs and economic growth.
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"Tax relief has done exactly what it was designed to do: It has created jobs and growth for the American people," Bush said in his weekly radio address.

"Yet some here in Washington are now proposing that we raise taxes, either by repealing the tax cuts or letting them expire," he said. "To keep our economy creating jobs and opportunity, Congress needs to make the tax relief permanent."

Democrats have criticized the Republican tax proposals as mainly benefiting the wealthy.

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=11854713&src=rss/ElectionCoverage

[More Than A Feeling]

1. How is this news?

That's what he's been doing since the moment he signed them into law. ;-)

[rodeodance]

2. Jr' radio addresses are always given the status of news

[rodeodance]

4. and the Dem counter response is about immigration.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/15/dems.radio.ap/in...

[spag68]

3. tax

How can these people sleep at night, and how do they convince millions of taxpayers that it is a good thing to give wealthy people more money? When I ponder this problem I sometimes think my head will explode.

[acmavm]

5. Well, if that's what blivet SAYS then you know reality is exactly 180

degrees opposite.

[babylonsister]

6. Does he have any intention, ever, of paying down the deficit?

Such a moran...

[kurth]

7. Quack! QuackkKK! QUACKKKK!!

Shut up already.

[TheBaldyMan]

8. Republicans:Welfare works when it benefits millionaires and corporations

welfare doesn't work when it benefits poor people.

Hard work by CEOs should be rewarded but the hard work of middle-income families should not.

Equal opportunity for all rich white sons of privilege, a real minority, works just fine but affirmative action for brown-skinned folks distorts the labour market.

Don't you get it?

[LynnTheDem]

9. There he goes AGAIN, with his own strawman!

Your tax cuts for the rich were TEMPORARY, bush.

TEMPORARY.

Haven't you bankrupted this nation enough already? Haven't your have-mores base profited enough at the expense of the middle class & poor already?

MFer.

[onehandle]

10. Won't Somebody Think of the Billionaires?

One party will.

[boobooday]

11. My idea for a T-shirt/bumpersticker

"Dick Cheney got a 1.8 million dollar tax refund, and all we got was this stupid dictatorship."

Too wordy?

[admsitio]

14. good idea

Good idea, i want to use it for my t-shirts.

[gratuitous]

12. No such thing as "permanent"

The tax code is constantly being adjusted, revised, tweaked and massaged. Asking to make tax cuts "permanent" is like asking your garden to quit growing because everything's "perfect" right this second. Bush is either a fool or he thinks we're fools for prattling on like this. Neither alternative exactly inspires me with hope for our country.

[admsitio]

13. more taxes, more money to make war

It's simple,more we pay, more we support our court appointment president to make war all around the world, it's is not for jobs, nor to grow the economy its just for give them all the necessary money for support expensive worlds and foreign policy around the world.

[stepnw1f]

15. I Say We Tax the Rich

till they have no more money, since they have shown why they can't be trusted with it all to themselves.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

16. Heck of a lot of good the tax cuts have done for the lower 99%.

[ecoalex]

17. When the hell will we hear the sound of that trickle down drip? Not yet.

[brentspeak]

18. Republicans: taxes should only pay for roads, defense....

...and Halliburton... and Bechtel... and Diebold... and (insert name of crony here)...

[Turbineguy]

19. Permanent

Right. Until Jan 20, 2009. Let's hope the US hasn't collapsed yet.

[Vinca]

20. There you go again, King George.

Permanent tax cuts. And they'll be put on the national charge card, won't they? Charge and spend Republicans, charge and spend Republicans, charge and spend Republicans.

[malaise]

21. Here Bush

Just for you.


From Direland.

[scarface2004]

22. what jobs?? growth??

oh bangalore india, that s the ticket.