Bob Dole: A Race to the Top
People understand they can't get all these tax cuts, protect their
favorite programs, and balance the budget," says Susan Tanaka speaking on the
promises made by presidential candidate Bob Dole to the American public (Gibbs
1996). Bob Dole proposed his tax cut package on Aug. 5, 1996 hoping to entice
the public into voting for him in the 1996 presidential elections. Dole focuses
his proposal towards social conservatives and supply siders believing he will
give them their link to growth-oriented tax cuts which will amount to 551
billion dollars over the next six years (Rubin 1996). So how does Bob Dole plan
to make all these things happen without remaining in office for at least 12
years? He does not, it is merely an impossible act in a desperate attempt to
get himself elected.
As a tradition, the "Grand old Party" has always benefited the rich more
than the middle and working class people of America. Bob Dole promises a plan
which will avoid......
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