Scott McClellen- "Bush is a Fiscal Conservative"

[Morrigoon]

You know who income taxes REALLY hurt? High income earners, not the wealthy (yes, there's a difference) People like doctors and lawyers who spent years in very expensive schooling to get where they are and who have to go to work every day to make the money they do... THAT's who it hurts.

The wealthy? They're investors. The last thing you wanna do is hurt investors (talk about a way to cause a recession!) But if your politicians can fool you into thinking they're "sticking it to the rich guy" by hurting high income-earners, then apparently that's enough to get your vote, which is all they care about. All you're really doing is perpetuating the gap between the rich and poor. Every time you try to "hurt" the rich, you're really hurting the guy in the middle or the guy on his way up, who don't have the money for the fancy accountants and other advisors to help him get all the cuts he deserves. All you're doing is making it harder for anyone else to get rich.

And I really don't believe anyone who spends the way Bush does is a fiscal conservative.