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How Did Tom Daschle Know How Much A BMW Muffler Costs?

by Randy Barker

It looks like we're really going to get a tax cut. They're just arguing
about how much. Democrat Tom Daschle of North Dakota says that under Bush's plan people who earn a million a year are going to save enough to buy another Lexus. And that the average wage earner is going to save only enough to buy a muffler. What Daschle fails to point out is that even if the top tax rate is reduced the 6 % Bush wants, a millionaire will still pay about $330,000 on his 1040 EZ. And that instead of buying a Japanese Lexus as Daschle suggests, he could patriotically use his savings to hire some other chicken-necked geek  from North Dakota to be his own personal demagogue, creating a new taxpayer  and helping out our struggling economy. Plus, if Bush's math isn't fuzzy, the average family will save $1,600. That's much more that it costs to buy a  muffler unless you're talking about a muffler for a BMW (I know) or for the  limousine of a Senate Minority Leader.

Democrats like Daschle are funny people. As Peggy Noonan wrote in the Wall  Street Journal, Democrats got mad at Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich, but  not when "he gave China military technology in return for cash". [There's a word for that. It begins with T.] Peggy could have mentioned that
Democrats  were also non-mad when allegations of perjury, obstruction of justice, fraud, sexual harassment, rape and worse came up. Maybe now that he's out of office they feel free to speak out because they're no longer afraid of winding up in  Battery Park or on the side of a mountain in the Balkans. When you refuse to  convict people like Clinton, you encourage them to continue to do things like steal furniture from public housing  (i.e. the White House). The Democrats and gutless Senate Republicans have
created Another O.J. Wonder if Clinton knows, as Arlen Specter has noted,
that he can be impeached again ?

Democrat loyalty to Clinton has always been a mystery. In his eight-year
reign, the Democrats lost the Senate, the House, governorships and state
legislatures, and finally the Presidency. He even helped kill the
re-election  of his hand-picked ticket to a Nobel Peace Prize, Ehud Barak. The Neville  Chamberlain of the Middle East didn't stand a chance after following Clinton's policy of appeasement.

But the most interesting thing that happened last week was not about
taxes,  Ariel Sharon's election or quid pro cash. It was Larry King's interview of  former White House staffer Linda Tripp. In that conversation she indicated  Janet Reno wasn't the catalyst for the inferno at Waco. She said Hillary Clinton pressured Vince Foster and Webb Hubbell to get Reno to order the assault. For some reason, Clinton buddy Larry King had no follow-up question.

 Excerpt from NotSo SERIOUS MONEY,
 a weekly online financial newsletter written by
 randybarker@aol.com