[quote=AN]afx114, where you draw the line really affect your argument. If Bush didn’t win in 2004, his policy would have been seen as amazing since employment was up, home ownership was up, stock was recovering, people were feeling very rich due to housing, etc. Same with Clinton, if his term end in 2001 instead of 2000, stocks would have been in the dump, employment was going down, we were in a recession, etc. So, it’s not quite as black and white as you trying to portray.[/quote]

Is it a coincidence then that Bush’s first tax cuts went into law in 2001? Were they the cause of the recession or designed to bring us out of it? I didn’t want this argument to turn into a Clinton vs Bush or Democrat vs. Republican argument, I wanted it to be about tax cuts and their effects on the overall economy.