Quoth Zell Miller...

Consider one of our greatest Democratic Presidents: John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Back in 1963 President Kennedy proposed a 13.6 billion dollar tax cut. At the time, it would have been the largest tax cut in history.

Part of President Kennedy’s plan was to cut the top tax rate by 26 percentage points – and our party stood with him.

A few years ago, President Bush proposed cutting the top tax rate by 6 percentage points, and a lot of Democrats howled with outrage.

President Kennedy also proposed cutting the lowest tax rate to 14 percent. President Bush went even further and asked us to cut that bottom rate to 10 percent, so that the people who are working hard to make ends meet have a little more breathing room at the end of the month.

All told, President Kennedy’s proposed tax cuts equaled more than 2 percent of the national economy. President Bush’s proposed tax cuts – the tax cuts that some Democrats said would gut the federal government – they represented 1.2 percent of the economy.

John F. Kerry may have the same initials as John F. Kennedy, but he has a far different view of what the government should do to help families prosper.

(Good points. But I still feel icky for having linked to the Republican web site. But what can I say? His argument is exactly right.)