This campaign season we will be airing candidate stump speeches as they travel around the country seeking support. This is an excerpt of an address Bob Dole made last week, on Labor Day, at a rally in St. Louis. In the speech, Dole pledges to cut taxes and balance the budget at the same time. He says his economic plan is pretty simple---it's time to give a break to everyone who pays taxes in America. He says there are three good reasons to cut taxes: too many families have both spouses working just to pay taxes, tax cuts will lift the economy and finally, the American people have waited too long for a tax cut---so he promises a 15% tax cut, a $500 per child tax credit, to cut capital gains by 50%, and to repeal the current tax on social security benefits.
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