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From: eLeader@mail.echampions2000.com Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 1:34 AM To: fhoot@aol.com Subject: eChampions Dear Friends, President Bush kept his promise to Americans by proposing a common sense plan that provides tax relief for all hardworking taxpayers. The principles of the President's plan are clear: Over-charged taxpayers deserve some of their own money back. The tax system is unfair, especially for those struggling to make it into the middle class. Hardworking parents should be able to keep more of their own money to provide for their families. Small businesses must have a better chance to grow and to hire. Our economy will be strengthened by lightening the tax burden on the American taxpayers who have the highest tax burden since World War II. Under President Bush's plan the average family of four will receive a $1600 tax refund, and all taxpayers will get relief -- with those at the lowest end of the economic spectrum getting the largest percentage of relief. No taxpayer will pay more than one-third of his or her income to the federal government in income taxes. The President's plan will: * Simplify the tax code by reducing today's five brackets to four: 10%, 15%, 25%, and 33%; * Double the child tax credit from $500 to $1000 per child; * End the death tax; * Reduce the marriage penalty which costs the average working couple $1400 a year just for being married; and * Expand tax incentives for charitable giving. This is a mainstream, common sense plan, but some big spending Democrats want to keep more and more of the surplus -- your tax over-payments -- here in Washington for them to spend instead of sending some of it back. The surplus has grown by an astonishing 23 percent since last summer to a staggering $5.6 trillion -- yet some liberal Democrat leaders in Congress still resist real tax relief. As history shows, if the surplus is kept in Washington, the politicians and the bureaucrats will spend it. That is why it is important that your Senators and Congressmen hear from you in support of the President's tax relief plan. President Bush knows how badly Americans need tax relief now, just as Americans did 40 years ago when a Democrat president faced a similar situation. President Bush recently explained, "Over the past six years, the federal share of our GDP has risen from 18 percent to 21 percent -- about as much as our government took during World War II. President John Kennedy faced a similar situation in the 1960s. He warned then against storing up dollars in Washington by taking away more than the government needed to pay its necessary expenses. High tax rates --, he said and I quote -- 'are no longer necessary. They are, in fact, harmful. These high tax rates do not leave enough money in private hands to keep this country's economy growing and healthy.' Forty years later, our Treasury is full and our people are over-charged. Returning some of their money is right, and it is urgent." Some Democrats are responding to the call. Georgia Senate Democrat Zell Miller agrees and has endorsed President Bush's bipartisan plan, "Right now, our taxes have never been higher. Right now, our surplus has never been greater. To me it's just plain common sense that you deal with the first by using the second. . . . This plan would make our tax code more progressive by cutting federal income taxes for people all across the income spectrum. And the largest percentage cuts would go to those Americans who earn the least. Under this proposal, six million more families will no longer pay any federal income taxes at all. That's one out of five families with children." Make sure your member of Congress and your Senators hear from you. Write them, call them, e-mail them or visit with them this week while Congress is home on recess. To reach your Senators go to: http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm to find the contact information for the Senators from your state. To reach your member of the House of Representatives go to: http://www.house.gov to find the contact information for your member Thank you. Sincerely, Jack Oliver Deputy Chairman, Republican National Committee (Please forward this message to friends, family and co- workers and ask them to show their support for President Bush's tax plan by asking their U.S. Senators and their member of Congress to support the plan.) ______________________________________________ Paid for by the Republican National Committee. If you wish to unsubscribe from the eChampion mailing list, simply click here: (unsubscribed line removed by fh) To become an eChampion click here:
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