Question: Doesn't 'tax surplus' mean taxpayers were overcharged? If so, shouldn't we get 100% of it back? If you go shopping and get shortchanged, do you let the store keep it to spend on improvements?
Submitted from Michael of Elko, Nevada through MSNBC.com (10/23/00)
Answer from Patrick J. Buchanan:
Tax Surplus Belongs To Taxpayers
Michael, your analogy is absolutely correct.
But rather than see the money as an overcharge by the government, Bush and Gore both see it as their money to use to buy votes.
Back in 1991, I challenged a president named Bush because he broke a pledge not to raise taxes. He said he had to do it to balance the budget. Bill Clinton raised taxes again, he said, to balance the budget. Well, the budget is balanced; and it is time to repeal both the Clinton tax hike and the Bush tax hike and give the surpluses back to the people -- because that money does not belong to the politicians; it belongs to the people; and I will give it all back. Here is how:
We will eliminate all death taxes and end the government's role as federal grave robber of the American family. We will end the marriage penalty and cut income taxes for all Americans. And we will impose a 10% tariff on imports, and use the money to end all taxes on small businesses. And we will chop down the IRS until it is so small all the IRS agents will fit into the building that is being vacated by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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