Whither the Conservative Movement? Apendix - Bob Dole
IV. Bob Dole
A. “Republican Candidate for President” 4-10-1995
1. “We need a President committed to making our tax system lower, fairer, flatter, simpler – so that ordinary people like you and me could fill out our tax form without a lawyer or accountant or both.
“Balancing the budget will also be a top priority; we cannot continue mortgaging our children’s future. We will give the President the line-item veto and we will give the American people a Balanced Budget Amendment.”
B. “The Best Days are Yet to Come” to the RNC, San Diego 9-15-1996
1. “The freedom of the market is not merely the best guarantor of our prosperity, it is the chief guarantor of our rights.
“A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy.”
2. “You now work from the first of January into May just to pay your taxes, so that the party of government can satisfy its priorities with the sweat of your brow, because they think that what you do with your own money would be morally and practically far less admirable than what they would do with it.”
3. “Let the people be free. Free to keep as much of what they earn as the government can strain with all its might not to take, not the other way around.
4. “Working with Jack Kemp and a Republican Congress, I will not be satisfied until we have reformed our entire tax code, and made it fairer, flatter, and simpler.
“The principal here is time-honored and true: and that is – it’s your money.
“You shouldn’t have to apologize for wanting to keep what you earn.
“To the contrary, the government should apologize for taking too much of it.”
A. “Republican Candidate for President” 4-10-1995
1. “We need a President committed to making our tax system lower, fairer, flatter, simpler – so that ordinary people like you and me could fill out our tax form without a lawyer or accountant or both.
“Balancing the budget will also be a top priority; we cannot continue mortgaging our children’s future. We will give the President the line-item veto and we will give the American people a Balanced Budget Amendment.”
B. “The Best Days are Yet to Come” to the RNC, San Diego 9-15-1996
1. “The freedom of the market is not merely the best guarantor of our prosperity, it is the chief guarantor of our rights.
“A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy.”
2. “You now work from the first of January into May just to pay your taxes, so that the party of government can satisfy its priorities with the sweat of your brow, because they think that what you do with your own money would be morally and practically far less admirable than what they would do with it.”
3. “Let the people be free. Free to keep as much of what they earn as the government can strain with all its might not to take, not the other way around.
4. “Working with Jack Kemp and a Republican Congress, I will not be satisfied until we have reformed our entire tax code, and made it fairer, flatter, and simpler.
“The principal here is time-honored and true: and that is – it’s your money.
“You shouldn’t have to apologize for wanting to keep what you earn.
“To the contrary, the government should apologize for taking too much of it.”
© 2004 by Xpatriated Texan
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