Just Say "Yes"
Norquist, Grover
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...All factions on the Left campaigned against Ashcroft in the hope of weakening Bush for future battles...
...The tax fight is World War II...
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...RINO (Republican in Name Only) senators Jim Jeffords from Vermont and Lincoln Chafee from Rhode Island are likely "no" votes...
...The 18 states in which Republicans control both houses of the state legislature are represented by 15 Democrat senators and 56 Democrat members of the House...
...Christian Josi, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, has put together a pro-tax cut coalition of the leading 17 conservative groups, economic, pro-family and pro-defense...
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...A tax cut that approximates Bush's plan will be a victory that erases the doubts of Florida and gives Bush momentum to maintain his goal of limiting discretionary spending to four percent 22 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR May 2001 The left fought Ashcroft in the hope of weakening Bush for future battles...
...They want to be left alone, whether they are taxpayers, property owners, home schoolers, or gun owners...
...The modern Republican Party is a coalition of groups and individuals united by a single idea...
...And, oh yes, "no government funds" would support "proselytizing or inherently religious activity...
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...By the end of March, 15 state legislative bodies including the North Dakota Senate, Montana Senate and Georgia Senate had passed such resolutions...
...It was a trial run-the Spanish Civil War...
...People are killed every week in this country for the money in their wallets...
...Steve Goldsmith explained at a separate White House briefing that faithbased organizations would be eligible for funding only "when a secular alternative exists, so there is no compulsion to go through a religious provider" of the service...
...They would have to ensure, however, that their help was cleansed of religion...
...Most notably, the administration proposes to help people claim tax credits for charitable contributions even if they don't currently make itemized deductions on their tax forms (as some 70 million taxpayers currently do not...
...Across-the-board rate cuts were the toughest, but who wanted to vote against the president on his first issue...
...Another proposal would allow individuals approaching retirement to make contributions from their tax-sheltered Individual Retirement Accounts, while still another would make it easier for business firms to donate equipment and supplies to charitable services...
...And it won ten Democrats...
...Josi reminded Neas at a press conference: "We beat you on Ashcroft and we'll beat you on the tax issue...
...Issues that energize crucial parts of the coalition bore or trouble others...
...If the Democrats can stop the tax cut, or force a compromise bill that is significantly smaller and targeted, they will have taken the initiative from Bush and made the Democrat Senate the co-equal power in government...
...Many in the business community point out correctly that the Bush plan, drafted more than a year ago during a period of strong growth, lacks crucial pro-growth provisions such as capital gains tax reduction, expensing investment in software and computers, and expanding IRA and 401(k) contribu tions...
...The business community put together more than 500 trade associations and business groups in the "Tax Relief Coalition...
...The struggle comes down to 50 votes in the Senate, where all the elements of the tax bill will be packaged together...
...But on K Street, the business lobbies get that winning this fight will open the door to a tax cut every year and intend to be first in line next time...
...Criticized by some, the House leadership was right to bring the plan up in stages...
...It was a trial run-the Spanish Civil War...
...The tax fight is World War II...
...Americans for Tax Reform has been urging state legislatures to pass resolutions instructing their congressmen and senators to vote for the Bush plan...
...Religious groups could get funding to help these despairing or embittered people "see the light" only if it were not a heavenly light...
...Terry Scanlon's Capital Research Center says the major groups in the coalition received at least $300 million in federal tax dollars in the last four years of Clinton-Gore...
...Faith-based organizations could, for example, seek funds for "improving rehabilitation of prison inmates" or "helping the children of prisoners" (two missions highlighted at White House briefings...
...Ralph Neas of People for the American Way has organized a coali tion of more than 500 groups to oppose the tax cut...
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...Washington understands the stakes...
...Thus a program justified in the first place by the unique contributions of faith-based organizations would end up stipulating those organizations could not rely on their clearest comparative advantage-their faith...
...None of these proposals should raise any constitutional difficulties...
...D ease c••ecc . proselytizing" in programs funded by the government...
...I Just Say "Yes" In the tax plan, a presidency is at stake BY GROVER NORQUIST I IL SCAFRM L George W Bush's is wagering his entire presidency on his tax plan, because he understands that tax cutting is the one major issue that energizes all Republicans and can hold together his Center-Right coalition...
...But we shouldn't set out on a direct aid program that makes Prison Ministries stipulate that it is not engaged in "ministry" in any religious sense of the term...
...Fine for the Salvation Army to get funding for its services, as long as it doesn't talk about salvation...
...Marriage-penalty reduction and death-tax repeal, which attracted, respectively, 48 and 65 "yeas" from Democrats last year, also passed the House in early April by wide margins...
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...The president reinforced the point two days later: "Government, of course, cannot fund and will not fund religious activities...
...Just be sure to allow six weeks for your change to take effect...
...Not surprisingly it looks just like the group that tried to defeat the Ashcroft nomination...
...Proposed changes in the tax law could help to spur private contributions to faith-based efforts...
...But there is no faction or tendency in the Republican Party and the conservative movement that does not support a tax cut...
...Georgia Democrat Zell Miller supports Bush's plan and says there are five more where he came from...
...The Supreme Court long ago acknowledged that churches can receive tax exemptions (and donors to churches can receive tax deductions) even if the churches actually do practice religion and nothing more...
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