The Presidential Election Of 2000

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rate tax of 17%. This plan also calls for the dismantling of the Internal Revenue Service, one of Forbes' chief adversaries. He is in favor of a Tax Limitation Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment would make it extremely hard for Congress to raise taxes. Like many other Republicans, he supports the end of the marriage tax and with his plan, there would be no separate tax on savings, pensions, and capital gains.
Bush's opinions on this subject are very different than Forbes'. On 1 December 1999 he unveiled his "tax plan for every American." These cuts, which will total $483 billion over five years, leave $103 billion of the $506 billion budget surplus untouched. The specific groups who benefit most from Bush's plan are the poorest working families and the richest families. His plan would eliminate income tax for twenty percent of the nations' working families with children. Richer people will benefit from this plan as well. These people will become eligible to ...

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their children from government intervention. Like his chief rival, Forbes plan calls for the creation of
George W. Bush's platform contains has one of the most comprehensive education reform plans the nation has ever seen. Governor Bush's education plan gives states, local districts, and parents more authority to set priorities and chart the path to greater student achievement, supports making federal funds more available to states and local districts in return for greater accountability and improved student achievement, calls for the creation of "charter states" - states that would receive maximum flexibility with federal funds in return for meeting high performance measures in ...

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