Candidate Bill Clinton President Bill Clinton
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cut taxes for middle class wants to raise them
vowed not to tamper with wants to tax more SS benefits
Social Security
proposed energy tax cuts wants energy tax increases
said he could raise $45 billion says the correct figure is $11 billion
by making foreign corporations
pay their fair share of US taxes
proposed to cut Medicare payments by wants at least $34 billion in Medicare
only $4.4 billion over four years cuts
and ran ads attacking Bush for
recommending more cuts
promised a guaranteed college proposing to spend $98 million-- enough
education for anyone who wanted one to cover only 4800 students in the
freshman class at U. of Maryland
promised a 10% income surtax on wants to impose the surtax on those
millionaires with taxable incomes ] $250,000
would raise income taxes on families wants to raise income taxes on families
with incomes ] $200,000. with incomes ] $30,000.
said he could reduce the deficit said he cannot reduce the deficit
by taxing the rich, foreigners without taxing the elderly, motorists,
and corporate polluters and farmers.
promised workers he would require put that idea on hold.
their companies to pay for
retraining
promised to increase minimum wage wants to keep the wage the same.
attacked Bush's policy of sending decided to maintain Bush's policy
illegal Haitians back to Haiti on Haiti.
as 'immoral'
Candidate Clinton, on "Good Morning America," June 23, 1992:
"If I'm elected, I'll have the bills ready the day after I'm
inaugurated. I'll send them to Congress and we'll have a 100-day period."
Spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers, Jan. 12, 1993:
"People of the press are expecting to have some 100-day program.
We never had one."
Regarding taxes:
Candidate Clinton, campaign ad, January 1992:
"I've offered a comprehensive plan to get our economy moving
again....It starts with a tax cut on the middle class."
Candidate Clinton, Jan. 12, 1992:
"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."
President-elect Clinton, Jan 14, 1993:
"From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystify
me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle
class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that."
President Clinton, first Oval Office address, Feb. 15, 1993:
"I had hoped to invest in your [the middle class's]
future...without asking more of you. And I've worked harder than I've
ever worked in my life to meet that goal. But I can't."
Candidate Clinton, last presidential debate, Lansing Mich., Oct. 19, 1992:
"The real mistake he [President Bush] made was the 'read my lips'
promise in the first place. You just can't promise something like that
just to get elected if you know there's a good chance that circumstances
may overtake you."
President-elect Clinton, press conference, Jan. 14, 1993:
"We have a structural deficit that is too high. The American
people would think I was foolish if I said I will not respond to changing
circumstances."
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