Gore's Lies on Tax Plan Exposed
by Steve Johnson 9:37am Mon Oct 23 '00
sjohnson@hotmail.com
The Vice President's Lies Regarding His Proposed Tax Plan Are Exposed. He'd Regulate the Middle Class Into Submission.

AL GORE'S EDUCATION PLANS...

$10,000... tax deduction that Al Gore says will be received by "all students who want to go to college".

$800... tax deduction is the reality.

0... students working their way through college getting a tax credit because they do not pay enough in income taxes.

30,000,000... low-income households get no benefit on Gore's education plan.

0... families making over $20,000 get a benefit.

5,000,000... upper income families are ineligible.

0... deductions or credits for room, board, books, supplies, and travel.

1... education plan that is almost identical to the one that failed in the Clinton White House.


AL GORE'S PROGRAM ON HEALTHCARE:

$600... access fee per year to obtain prescription drug coverage under the Gore plan.

412... new regulatory mandates created by the Gore Medicare plan.

182... new regulations dealing with prescription drugs alone.

64.5... the age you are when you have your one and only opportunity to buy into a government HMO.

8... year wait for Gore's plan to be implemented.

2... times the price of Bush's plan to create more government bureaucrats


THE VICE PRESIDENT ON TAXES:

88... separate tax increases along with 42 new user fees Gore proposed in the 2001 budget.

11%... how much the tax burden has increased over the last 8 years.

$500... per child tax credit was never included in previous Clinton/Gore budgets.

50,000,000... taxpayers will not get tax relief under Gore's plan.

$1,400... couples will pay in taxes because Gore opposed the Marriage Penalty tax cut.

4.3 cents... tax increase on a gallon of gas because of Gore's tie-breaking vote.


THE MOST IMPORTANT NUMBERS:

17... days until the election.

I'm a Nader voter & IMC volunteer who's done a resonable amount of work on this site, so my purpose here is not to defend Gore, but to defend the integrity of this site. This post is simply a regurgitation of the standard Republican lies & misrepresentations about Gore's positions, which, though hardly progressive, are certainly more favorable to average Americans than G.W. Bush's "feed the greedy, not the needy" plans.

Because the IMC is an open publishing effort, any damn fool or knave can publish anything they want. So whenever *anyone* posts information to an IMC website, the first thing to do is to look at where that information came from. And if there's NO information about where it came -- if it's not a first-hand report, and there's no internal citation or link to a website, then the "information" should be regarded as nothing more than opinion in drag.

The real problem with Gore's proposals is that they don't come anywhere close to matching the magnitude of the problem. They'll certainly help many individuals, but in a country our size that's just a drop in the bucket.

Gore's failure to support universal health care is typical of the shortcomings of his approach. Every other industrialized nation except South Africa uses this approach, there's nothing controversial or experimental about it. But it's opposed by enormous corporate interests who make untold billions every year by doing *NOTHING* that's essential to providing health care. And Gore is beholden to those interests. There's a slight difference with Bush: he IS those interests.

Either way, the one proven solution to our health care crisis is not up for debate between these two. Only different modes of failure will be discussed. If this is how they discuss matters of life and death for millions of Americans, what do you expect when they discuss anything else?