Kerry and McCain pledge to end corporate welfare!

[DaveSZ]

View this awesome speech by Kerry:

http://www.johnkerry.com/

(Click on "Watch Wednesday's Speech")

[DaveSZ]

1. Kerry's the man

We have to make sure he's elected. :)

[sangh0]

2. One response to this thread?? INCREDIBLE!!!

With all the whining about how Kerry and the Dems are DLC Corporatists, and with all the talk about the choice Nader offers us, and ONLY ONE REPONSE in this thread?

IN-FUCKIN-CREDIBLE

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. If you can't watch

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Third, we will free resources and reduce the deficit by taking on corporate welfare. John McCain and I have introduced legislation to end corporate welfare as we know it. In a Kerry Administration, we will fight for that bill; we will take our case to the public if we have to - and we will pass it. Today, mining companies buy up public lands for five dollars an acre.

And Dick Cheney's old company Halliburton dodges taxes with offshore havens while it gets billions from no-bid government contracts. If I'm elected President, those days will come to an end.

By going after corporate welfare, as John McCain says, we can save tens of billions of dollars a year. Our bill calls for a Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission to recommend cuts and submit them to Congress for an up or down vote - with no amendments.

John McCain can't get anyone in the Bush White House to listen to our proposal. If I'm President, John McCain will get the first pen when I sign this bill into law.

We can't restore fiscal responsibility unless we have a President willing to bring our divided parties together - and ready to be straight with the public about what we can and can't afford.

We can cut the deficit in half in four years, expand health care coverage, and make it more affordable for the families who already have it. We can invest in education, restore pay as you go rules, and impose spending caps. We can rollback the Bush tax cuts for those at the top - and cut taxes for middle class Americans.

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Read the whole speech http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0407.html

[ACK]

4. Sorry too wrapped in the flamebait floating around

This is really good.

Now, if he can just really honestly close the loopholes in the tax code for these buggers.

In any case, good deal.