From President Bush:
Voters have a clear choice to make on Election Day.
It’s a choice between Republicans who understand the most important responsibility we have is to protect and defend the people of the United States.
Or Democrats who will wave the white flag of surrender in the global war on terror and deny the tools needed to achieve victory.
It’s a choice of whether we move forward with our pro-growth polices that have created more than 5.5 million new jobs since August 2003 and kept taxes low so you have more of your own money to spend and invest as you see fit.
Or whether the opposition will turn back the gains we have made by raising taxes on working families and effectively stifling economic growth.
It’s a choice of whether we will continue to confirm judges to the federal bench who strictly interpret the Constitution, not legislate from the bench.
Or whether Democrats will block our well-qualified nominees in favor of activist judges who want to invent new laws.
On issue after issue, the Republican Party is working to represent your interests and protect your values.
If the Democrats retake the U.S. House and Senate, they will immediately move to reinstate the failed policies of the past.
Their policies will cost American jobs, weaken our nation’s security and devastate our economy.
To meet the challenges of the historic times in which we live, we must elect Republican majorities to the U.S. House and Senate.
That means we must get every Republican, like-minded Independent and discerning Democrat voter who supports our optimistic, hopeful agenda for America to the polls on Election Day.
Since 2001, House Democrats have pushed five alternative budgets totaling nearly $1 trillion in additional spending. This extra federal spending would have cost each American family $13,000.
Democrats said that we have to choose between cutting the deficit and keeping taxes low — or to put it another way, in order to solve the deficit we have to raise taxes. But tax relief fuels economic growth. As businesses expand people pay more taxes, and when you pay more taxes, there’s more revenues that come to the treasury. Tax revenues grew by $253 billion in 2006. That’s an increase of 11.8%. Over the last two years, we’ve seen the largest back-to-back increases in tax revenues ever, and the largest percentage increase in 25 years. In other words, when you put policies in place that cause the economy to grow, tax revenues increase.
Oh, for sure, the Democrats will promise tax cuts for the “working families”. But consider this: Then-Gov. Bill Clinton, in 1992, said, “I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we’re going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.”
The next year Rep. Pelosi and 216 other House Democrats voted for the largest tax hike in American history, which raised taxes $241 billion.
Now Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., (who would likely become Ways And Means Committee Chairman if Democrats recapture the House) vowed to put all of President Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts on the chopping block. Failing to extend the tax cuts would result in a nearly $2.4 trillion tax increase on American taxpayers. A family of four earning $50,000 would owe $2,092 more a year – a 132% increase in their tax bill. 26 million small businesses would owe an average of $3,637 more a year. 5 million low-income individuals and couples would again be subject to the individual income tax.
It’s your pocketbook. It’s your vote.
Republican, Democrat, Election Day
