July 30, 2004

MAYBE HE IS NIXON:

Kerry's Economic Remedy Won't Be Revealed Before Election (Nathan Burchfiel, July 30, 2004, CNSNews.com)

A top economic advisor to Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said the public won't hear Kerry's financial plans until after he's elected - if he's elected.

In the Aug. 2 cover story of "Business Week," former Clinton administration treasury secretary Robert Rubin said, "I don't think you can make proposals to try to dig out of this hole until you've gotten elected ... If you start to put out proposals now, they would be vigorously attacked and they would in effect become tainted so they couldn't be used."


They'll have to back down on this within days because it's just too easy to portray as a secret tax hike plan.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 30, 2004 10:13 PM
Comments

Ok. Maybe this really is the worst dem presidential campaign ever.

Posted by: JAB at July 30, 2004 11:57 PM

Starting to agree with JAB and others. "We'll tell you our economic plan after the election" attitude is ridiculous.

Posted by: AWW at July 31, 2004 12:16 AM

"portrayed"?

Posted by: Tom at July 31, 2004 8:47 AM

I agree with Tom, the plan is to raise taxes, as Kerry's said explicitly many, many times.
The only question is how deep into the middle class the tax hikes will go.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at July 31, 2004 3:52 PM
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