RNC TALKING POINTS

THE 1996 ELECTION
TRUST AND TAXES

November 1, 1996

In these final days, the 1996 presidential election comes
down to two major issues:  Trust and taxes.


Trust

Whether it's his broken campaign promises or the flood of
scandals engulfing his administration, Bill Clinton has
violated the public trust.  Bob Dole, a man even liberal
Democrats describe as a man of his word, will restore that
trust.

o In 1992, Bill Clinton campaigned on the promise of a
  middle-class tax cut.  But once in office, he raised taxes
  instead-the largest tax increase in history.  He also
  vetoed a $500-per-child tax credit for working families
  passed by the Republican Congress.

o In 1992, Clinton promised to balance the budget in five
  years.  But he vetoed the first balanced budget in 26
  years, opposed a Balanced Budget Amendment to the
  Constitution, and takes credit for deficit reduction that
  a Republican Congress passed.

o In 1992, Clinton promised to wage a real war on drugs.
  Instead teenage drug use has doubled under his
  administration and juvenile crime has exploded.

o In 1992, Clinton said he would make abortion "safe, legal
  and rare."  Instead, he has supported abortion-on-demand
  for any reason or no reason and paid by the taxpayers, if
  necessary.  Clinton also supports partial-birth abortion
  which even pro-choice liberals such as Sen. Daniel Patrick
  Moynihan (D-NY) describe as "close to infanticide."

o Clinton has consistently refused to tell seniors the truth
  about Medicare, which is going bankrupt on his watch at
  the rate of $22 million a day.  Instead, he has run a
  MediScare campaign cynically designed to frighten seniors
  when even the AARP says that Medicare spending would have
  increased 7% under the Republican budget.

o Finally, the constant stream of scandals and ethical
  lapses in the Clinton administration from Travelgate to
  Filegate to illegal contributions from foreign sources and
  Clinton's refusal to rule out pardons for his convicted
  Whitewater partners have eroded the public trust.


Taxes

Bob Dole is the only candidate with a plan to let American
families keep more of their hard-earned money because he
trusts the people.  Under Clinton, the typical family is
paying the highest percentage of their income in taxes ever-
almost 40%-and that means in most families both spouses have
to work, one to support the family and one just to support
the government.

o Under the Dole/Kemp plan a family of four making $30,000 a
  year will save $1,261-an 86% cut in their federal income
  taxes.  That's $105 more per month for their families.

o To get the economy moving again from the lackluster 2.2%
  growth under Clinton, the Dole/Kemp plan cuts in half the
  taxes Americans pay when selling a small business, farm or
  other investment and eliminates the tax most people pay
  when they sell their homes.

o The Dole/Kemp plan also calls for a balanced budget by the
  year 2002 and seals it with a Balanced Budget Amendment to
  the Constitution.  We can cut taxes and balance the budget
  by increasing Washington spending more slowly.  Dole
  proposes to have spending grow at 2.1% a year versus
  Clinton's 2.95% a year-a difference in federal spending of
  less than 1% a year or just one penny on the dollar.  Bob
  Dole thinks its time for Washington to pinch pennies-not
  families.

When voters go to the polls this Tuesday, they have a basic
choice.  Do we want to keep more of the money we earn or do
we want to send it to Washington?  Do we want a leader we
can trust, or one who has lost our trust.  In the end, the
American people will make the right choice, and that choice
is Bob Dole and Jack Kemp.