e form of rate decreases. Cutting taxes allows people to keep more of their money, so that they decide, rather than the government, how to apportion it. Spend $586B surplus on tax cuts, health, & defense 10-year surplus: $2T Social Security; $1T debt; $1T tax cut I believe weve got $4 trillion [in surpluses available] over 10 years; $2 trillion of which will go to save Social Security and pay down debt; $1 trillion available for debt repayment and other programs and $1 trillion, over a 10-year period, for a meaningful, substantial, real tax cut to the people. Use presidential power to get money away from Congress McCAIN [to Bush]: You seem to depict the role of the president as a hapless bystander. [Clinton] is threatening to shut down the government and vetoing bills to force the congress to spend more money. An active president, i.e. me, will veto bills and threaten to shut down the government to make them spend less money. Bush: Its the presidents job to make sure Congress doesnt have the money to spend in the first place. It is the presidents job to stand up to express the will of the people, advocate and fight for a meaningful real tax cut. And thats what Im going to do. Supports Balanced Budget Amendment Gov. Bush stated that he would support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution requiring an annual balanced federal budget. George W. Bush on Oil & Energy. better to drill ANWR than import oil from Saddam Hussein GORE (to Bush): Gov.Bush is proposing to open up some of our most precious environmental treasures, like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to the big oil companies to go in and start producing oil there. I think that is the wrong choice. It would only give us a few months worth of oil, and the oil wouldnt start flowing for many years into the future. I dont think its a fair price to pay, to destroy precious parts of Americas environment. BUSH: We need an active exploration program in America. The only way to become les...
