Fred Thompson on Taxes

FRED:

One of the reasons I keep ringing the bell about the Bush tax cuts is that they’ve been so good for our country in so many ways.

Letting them expire would amount to a tax hike of historic proportions -- a tax hike that would take a higher share of our total economy than any year but one since the end of World War II.

... Prosperity is a wonderful thing in many ways. When societies have strong economies, people voluntarily take care of all kinds of problems, and the quality of life improves for everybody. This may be particularly true for children. Look around the world and you see healthy, growing economies have cleaner environments and better educational systems. The wealthier a society is, the better its children are in terms of nutrition, health care and even crime.

... we got these improvements in our children’s lives from a strong economy driven by tax cuts.

Now we're being told [by the Dems] that tax cuts have to end, so that the government can tax us and spend the money on programs to accomplish what Americans already did for themselves. And they did it far better than any bureaucracy ever could.

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