Cheney Misleads on Small Business Taxes

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CHENEY MISLEADS ON SMALL BUSINESS TAXES

During Tuesday's debate Vice President Cheney claimed that John Kerry's plan to roll back tax cuts for individuals making over $200,000 would negatively impact nearly a million small businesses. Cheney said that, "about 900,000 small businesses will be hit if you do, in fact, do what they want to do with the top bracket."[1] The figure Cheney cited is highly misleading.

Under Cheney's definition a small business is any taxpayer who reports some income - even just $1 - from a small business investment or partnership. By this logic, "every partner at a huge accounting firm or at the largest law firm would represent small businesses."[2] Also, by Cheney's definition, President Bush would have counted as a small business in 2001 because that year "he reported $84 of business income from his part ownership of a timber-growing enterprise."[3] The overwhelming majority of actual small businesses are in the lower tax brackets and would be unaffected by the Kerry proposal.[4]

Sources:

1. "Remarks of Vice President Cheney and Senator Edwards in Vice Presidential Debate," The White House, 10/06/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=61356.
2. "Misleading Assertions Cover Iraq War and Voting Records," Washington Post, 10/06/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=61357.
3. "Are Bush and Cheney "Small Businesses?" Their Ad Counts Them As Such," FactCheck.org, 10/01/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=61358.
4. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=61358.

FW: Cheney/Bush Mislead on Hussein/Zarqawi Connection

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CHENEY AND BUSH MISLEAD ABOUT HUSSEIN/ZARQAWI CONNECTION

Vice President Cheney and President Bush have repeatedly claimed that
al-Qaeda had a working relationship with Saddam Hussein which justified
the invasion of Iraq. The key piece of evidence Cheney and President
Bush have used to support this claim was that Hussein harbored Abu Musab
al Zarqawi - a suspected associated of al-Qaeda. For example, on 6/21/04
Cheney said "Mr.
Zarqawi, who is in Baghdad today, is an al Qaeda associate who took
refuge in Baghdad, found sanctuary and safe harbor there before we ever
launched into Iraq."[1] President Bush said on 6/15/04 "Zarqawi's the
best evidence of a [Hussein] connection to al Qaeda affiliates and al
Qaeda."[2] One problem: there is no evidence to support these claims.

Knight Ridder reports "a new CIA assessment undercuts the White House
claim that Saddam Hussein maintained ties to al Qaeda, saying there is
no conclusive evidence that the regime harbored terrorist Abu Musab al
Zarqawi."[3] According to a senior U.S. intelligence official "The
evidence is that Saddam never gave Zarqawi anything."[4] Ironically, the
assessment was requested by Cheney.[5]

Sources:

1. "CNN Newsnight Aaron Brown," CNN, 06/21/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60800.
2. "Bush stands by al Qaeda, Saddam link," CNN, 6/15/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60801.
3. "Iraq-al Qaeda tie called unlikely," Miami Herald, 10/05/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60802.
4. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60802.
5. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60802.

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FW: Rice Misleads Again on Iraq's Nuclear Program

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RICE MISLEADS AGAIN ON IRAQ'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM

The New York Times revealed yesterday that top administration officials
grossly mislead the public about Iraq's supposed nuclear weapons
program.[1] The government's top nuclear scientists said that the
aluminum tubes Iraq had acquired were "too heavy, too narrow and too
long" for use in creating nuclear weapons.[2] They were perfectly
suited, however, for use in Iraq's existing legal rockets.[3] Meanwhile,
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice went on CNN before the
invasion of Iraq and said the tubes "are only really suited for nuclear
weapons programs."[4]

In October 2003, David Kay - the administration's handpicked weapons
inspector - concluded, "We have not uncovered evidence that Iraq
undertook significant post-1998 steps to actually build nuclear weapons
or produce fissile material."[5] Stunningly, appearing on talk shows
yesterday morning, Rice continued to insist that Iraq may have been
pursuing nuclear weapons and that the aluminum tubes may have been
involved in that process. On ABC's "This Week" Rice said, "As I
understand it, people are still debating this."[6] David Albright, the
president of the Institute for Science and International Security, said
Rice "is being disingenuous, and just departing from any effort to find
the truth."[7]

Sources:

1. "How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence," New York
Times, 10/03/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60492 .
2. Ibid., http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60492 .
3. Ibid., http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60492 .
4. "Ritter Meets With Iraqi Leaders," CNN, 9/08/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60493.
5. "Statement by David Kay ," CIA, 10/02/03,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60494.
6. "Rice: Iraqi nuclear plans unclear," MSNBC, 10/03/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60495.
7. Ibid., http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=3476437&l=60495 .

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