Presidential Debate: ROUND II Options

[Retrogressive]

Who do you think will win/won the debate? I pulled this from BBC news (although it is rather... simple) it is a prediction of the debate: BUSH vs. KERRY

[ComradeRed]

poised,Oct 11 2004, 10:10 AM] taxes are a certain in every president. they all say they'd cut, but they never do.

but a draft is something totally different. if a president said he wouldn't reinstitute the draft, i'd be more likely to believe him than if he said he'd cut taxes.

that's just the way it works.

The tax record of twentieht century presidents:

*By taxes, I mean revenue in general -- Tariffs also count as taxes

Raised Taxes:
McKinley (1896)
TR (1901)
Taft (1908)
Wilson (1912)
Harding (1920)
Hoover (1928 -- one of the main causes of the great depression)
FDR -- Second, Third, and Fourth Terms (1936)
Truman (1948)
Johnson -- Second Term (1964)
Nixon (1968)
Ford (1973)
Bush XLI (1988)
Clinton (1992)

Lowered Taxes:
Coolidge (1923)
FDR -- First Term (1932)
Eisenhower (1952)
Kennedy (1960)
Johnson -- First Term (1962)
Carter (1976)
Reagan (1980)
Bush XLIII (2000)

Of the presdients that lowered taxes, 4 have been Republicans and 2 have been democrats. If you count Johnson and FDR, who lowered taxes intiiatlly but raised them later, the number becomes even -- at 4 from each party.