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GW's tax plan is good for the economy.

2004-08-29 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

Economists say that the GW tax plan with hurt the economy. The future budget outlook is gloomy.

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See Nobel Laureate economists disagree with GW Bush
GW Bush's tax plan hurts U.S. cities
Economic Charts - Are you Better Off since Bush took Office?

GW says that he wants to conserve the environment and develop alternative energy.

2004-08-29 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

Bush ordered agencies to put use before protection.The Bush administration policies are misleadingly named "Clear Skies", "Clean Water", "Healthy Forests", or "Energy Security". His actual policies will be very damaging to the ecology that our economy depends on. Republicans are an endangered species.

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See Protect Environment Laws
Right words, wrong policies
Crimes Against Nature

GW says that his tax cuts help the middle class and that "Ninety-two million Americans will keep an average $1,083" tax cut

2004-05-20 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

The big benefactors of the tax cut are the wealthy, people like Bush and Cheney. The median tax savings will be less than $300.

The Center on Budget Policy Priorities wrote a comprehensive assessment of the Bush Administration's record on cutting taxes shows that two-thirds of the Bush tax cuts this year are going to the top fifth of the population, while at the same time, many states have been forced to raise taxes and fees that disproportionately hit the middle class

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See Read more about the GW budget
Citizens for Tax Justice
Left Behind in Good Times and Bad

Republican tax credits passed in May, 2003, will help all families with children

2004-05-11 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

The tax burden has been shifted from wealthy to low and middle income workers. Republican tax credits took care of the rich and left many poor families without a child tax credit.

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See Search the congressional record
Child Tax Credit - Issue in Depth

Web sites listing GW Bush's false statements

2004-05-03 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

GW Bush makes so many untrue statements about his policies that many web sites document them. The latest ones are MediaMatters.org archives of conservative misinformation and John Kerry's DBunker where you can look them up by category or date.

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See Caught on Film - Created by the Democrats of the House Appropriations Committee
GW Bush's record
close to 200 lies told by GW Bush

GW says that he wants good health care for all Americans

2004-03-07 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

GW Bush's budget and health care plan would mean privitization of social security and Medicare and risk the demise of both. His EPA department plans to defer controls on mercury emissions by power plants that cause brain damage in infants, and may be related to the sharp increase in autism.

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See Continuation of SS and Medicare at risk
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Health
Senate Prescription Drug Bill

War is good for the economy.

2004-02-08 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

War has been consistently bad for the economy since WWII. WWII was a very different situation than today. The Iraqi war is destroying the U.S. economy.

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See War, Tax Cuts, and the Deficit
Cost of the War in Iraq

Republicans favor balanced budgets

2004-01-09 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

The sun may never set on massive budget deficits due to the Republican budgets beginning in 2001. IMF (International Monetary Fund) Economists report that the US Deficits threaten the world economy.

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See The Atlantic Online
$300 Billion Deficits, As Far as the Eye Can See
Are you better off than you were when Bush took office?

GW says his budget will help create jobs.

2003-12-24 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

The Bush budget should be called the Windfall for the Wealthy act. Over 2 million jobs have been lost since GW took office and his budget will not stimulate job creation according to economists. Homelessness and Hunger have increased.

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See Concord Coalition for Economic Development
Economic Comparison - Bush vs. Clinton
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Unemployment

President Bush is a friend of working people

2003-12-12 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

President Bush has ended the forty hour work week by ending overtime pay for workers

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See Greg Palast, investigative reporter - The Grinch that Stole Labor Day
Job Losses Mount. LA Times Sep 5, 2003
GW Bush Changes Overtime Rules

US Agriculture Policy Helps Farmers

2003-11-30 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

In fact, US Agriculture Policy subsidizes large agribusiness and helps put independent farmers out of business.

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See Worst Agriculture Policy Money Can Buy


Republican political control is good for the stock market

2003-09-08 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

A federal reserve bank and a group of computer scientists studying the facts say just the opposite. Democratic political control is correlated with better stock market performance.

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See Federal Reserve Bank of San Franciso
Study using economists Susan Woodward and Robert Hall, Ibbotson Associates, and the Stock Trader's Almanac
Historical Economic Charts

Republican budget projections are truthful

2003-09-08 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

Republican budget projections include spending all the social security and Medicare surplus as it comes in, leave huge costs out of the picture, etc.

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See Institute for International Economics

President GW Bush says that he is tough on corporate crime

2003-09-08 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

GW Bush asked for special exemptions so that offshore companies that avoid paying U.S. taxes can receive government contracts, and more...

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See Former Justice Dept Prosecutor speaks
The Daily Enron
Corporate connections

GW says he wants to curtail federal spending

2003-09-08 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

GW Bush spends huge amounts on war, oil, and a new expensive missile defence program.

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See GW Bush State of the Union Speech
GW spends on expensive Missile Defence program

Republican tax-cuts are good for business

2003-09-08 by kathy@truthisbetter.org

Tax-cut and spend policies of Republicans that create big deficits and increase the national debt as a percentage of GDP are bad for business.

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See Concord Coalition - federal budget policy group
Congressional Budget Office
Government Accounting Office

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