The Sherrod Brown reaction
Ben LaBolt, spokesman for the Sherrod Brown campaign, said "Ohio's middle class familes have no recollection of the Bush tax cuts because they were targeted to the upper one percent of the wealthiest people in the country."
LaBolt said that any impact Bush tax cuts might have had on middle class families would have been negated by the rising cost of living in recent years, particularly for energy and health care.
LaBolt said that instead of supporting Bush's tax cuts, Brown favors targeted tax credits for middle class families for child care, college tuition, and caring for aging parents.
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Post a Comment*Ohio's middle class families do have a recollection of all the tax increases voted for by Sherrod Brown. When Sherrod Brown voted for the government to take money from your pocket it was targeted at all Americans.
I am a Democrat who is entirely in favor of tax cuts. As a matter of fact, I ran for US Congress two times in less than one year and expressed a strong opposition to raising taxes. During that time, I had the opportunity to meet Sherrod Brown. He is an honorable, decent and trustworthy man.
The fact that Sherrod Brown favors tax cuts for the middle class (NOT millionaires... and NOT oil companies)... is reason enough for lots of Republicans to support his bid for the United States Senate.
It will be an honor to cast my vote for Sherrod Brown on November 7, 2006. Maybe we need to start knocking on doors in Hamilton, Warren and Clermont County and spread the word that we actually have a Democrat who understands the American (and global) economy. In Sherrod Brown, we actually have a Democrat who completely understands the strengths and weaknesses of the Medicare Prescription Drug Program. We have a Democrat who never voted to give tax breaks to oil companies while you were paying 3 bucks a gallon. (Anybody want to guess what the price of a gallon of gas will be after this election???) We have a Democrat who will vote his heart and respect your wallet at the same time.
American leadership is supposed to be about the improvement of the lives of others. Sherrod Brown has dedicated his life to the improvement of the lives of other people. He is the type of representative that demonstrates moral, family and (even) religious values in his words and in his deeds. I will be honored and proud to vote for Sherrod Brown for United States Senate. I hope that Republicans, Democrats and Independent voters will join together and do the same.
Jim Parker
Former Candidate for US Congress
Southern Ohio 2nd District - 2005 & 2006
As an employee of Meyer Tool I can say that I have benifited greatly by the tax cuts President Bush has implemented. My salary in the past 5 years has more than doubled. Again Sherrod Brown let us down by not telling the truth on how the tax cuts have helped middle class Americans.
LaBolt is wrong, because of the tax cuts I have enjoyed raises that have doubled my salary since 2000. Tax cuts work for middle class Americans and LaBolt is an idiot.
The two 'doubled my salary' comments are clearly written by the same person.
Has anyone 'doubled their salaries' due to the tax cuts, except for the super rich who have been the sole beneficiaries of the tax cuts? Middle class wages have been stagnate for over 5 years now. Bush and his administration only care about the ultra rich-every action that they have taken has been for their sole benefit, and they have declared war on the middle class, who are the backbone of this nation. The greed of the ultra rich has reached new heights, unseen since the days of the Robber Barons.
Don’t take my word for it, read what Lou Dobbs has to say, he’s no liberal:
“Lou Dobbs on President Bush and his elitist war on the middle class"
By Lou Dobbs
CNN
Wednesday, May 24, 2006; Posted: 10:21 p.m. EDT (02:21 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- "President Bush says that the installation of the new Iraqi government was a "watershed event," but at the same time warns Americans of the challenges and loss as we continue to prosecute the war against Iraqi insurgents.
And then the president signs into law a tax cut that raises taxes on the educational funds of teenagers saving for college.
Never before in our country's history have both the president and the Republican controlled Congress been so out of touch with most Americans. Never before have so few of our elected officials and corporate leaders been less willing to commit to the national interest. And never before has our nation's largest constituent group -- some 200 million middle-class Americans -- been without representation in our nation's capital.
George W. Bush's approval ratings have slumped to the lowest of his presidency. The approval rating for Congress is even lower, and nearly three-quarters of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.
But what is our government doing about that? The president is staying the course in Iraq and apparently demanding little of his generals to create a new, far more effective strategy for urgent success. Of course, he also wants a guest-worker program and amnesty of millions of illegal aliens. And Congress, faced with midterm elections in just over five months, is intent on giving the president what he wants and telling working men and women and their families, American citizens all, to go to hell.
This is an outright assault in the elitist war on the middle class. And working men and women who've already borne the pain of losing good-paying manufacturing jobs and having middle-class jobs outsourced to cheap foreign labor markets are faced with the onslaught of more illegal immigration and cheap labor into the American economy. This president and Congress talk about bringing illegal aliens out of the shadows while they turn out the lights on our middle class.
President Bush and his most trusted advisers tell us how well our economy is doing, how many jobs have been created and how so-called free trade will enrich the lives of the same people whose livelihoods these policies are destroying.
It's hard not to think of the trusted adviser to Catherine the Great who sought to hide from her the embarrassing and shoddy condition of Ukrainian and Crimean villages by having elaborate facades built to divert her attention and to mask an uncomfortable reality. I don't know whether Karl Rove is President Bush's Grigori Potemkin or whether George Bush has created Potemkin villages all by himself. But the facades are cracking, and phony fronts of failed policies are quickly crumbling.
The president's faith-based commitment to so-called free trade will likely lead to a $1 trillion U.S. current account deficit this year and a trade debt of $4.5 trillion after 30 years of trade deficits. And while the president and Congress point to No Child Left Behind as a solution to our educational crisis, we're failing an entire generation of Americans whose test scores continue to fall and whose high school dropout rates would be embarrassing to a third-world country.
And a third-world country is what we will be if our elected officials don't soon come to their sensess."
Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new anti-U.S. jihadists. These
jihadists who survive will leave Iraq experienced and focused on acts of urban terrorism.
They represent a potential pool of contacts to build transnational terrorist cells, groups and
networks in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other countries. -Porter Goss, CIA Director
Ben LaBolt is a badass.
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