1. Having promised to cut taxes, the government now has an obligation to do so. 2. He said about four million people would have their tax cut by a fifth. 3. America does, of course, have its tax cut. 4. Analysts expect the final budget law to contain a capital gains tax cut resembling an initiative that Republicans unveiled in January. 5. And House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri announced his own tax cut plans on Tuesday. 6. And if tax cuts now are ineffective, tax cuts later are even less effective. 7. And tax cuts that matter to people could actually happen on his watch. 8. And the current ruling coalition is too unstable to push major spending or tax cut plans through the powerful bureaucracy. 9. At issue, however, is whether that desire will yield the public other desires for campaign finance reform, a balanced budget and some tax cuts. 10. Asked whether he will fight for new campaign donation laws, Bush advisers have repeatedly changed the subject to note his other priorities, particularly education and tax cuts. |