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Tax cuts

William Raspberry is struggling to understand latest tax cuts. An excellent op-ed piece.

Bush’s first tax-cut measure, if you recall, was proposed as a way of redistributing the huge budget surplus he inherited from Bill Clinton. You know, give the people their money back.

When the surplus evaporated (I won’t get into whose fault that was), he proposed tax cuts as a way to stop the economy from deteriorating. Now he’s proposing tax cuts as a way to turn the economy around. Does he really believe tax cuts can, like penicillin, find their healing way to wherever the infection happens to be?

Makes me wonder a bit. May be I too should pick one of the solutions below to solve any problem.

1. Tax cut. Is there anything left to cut?
2. Pound war drums against Iraq. This is a good one, since you can’t actually use drums once you start war. So, keep threatening action.
3. Tighten airport security. I’m sure another directive next month will prohibit passengers from buttoning their pants and shirts. I’m not making this up. Last month, in Orlando airport, I was asked to unbutton my jeans' metallic button and turn it around so that it could be scanned.

If none of these is satisfactory, one can always praise Ariel Sharon as a great humanitarian.