Okay, so I'm a day late... but Howard Dean wrote an op-ed on the Bush tax cuts that appeared in yesterday's Des Moines Register. An excerpt:
When President George W. Bush signed the $350 billion tax-cut package last month, he set this nation on the road to fiscal crisis. It is a road that the president is deliberately taking, at the expense of all Americans, to advance his narrow agenda.
For years, Republicans have sought to reduce or eliminate funding for popular social initiatives, such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and the American people repeatedly have rejected their efforts. Now, led by President Bush, the radical wing of the Republican Party has found a new way to reach its goal of fundamentally altering the role of the federal government and forcing privatization of our most basic services.
We must be honest with the American people. The economic plans put forth by President Bush and the Republican Party are an attack on the values that Americans overwhelmingly support, such as the importance of strong public education, affordable health care, a healthy environment and a financially sound Social Security. If allowed to stand, the result of the president"s tax cuts will be the gutting of these values through a process of financial starvation.
