Dave McSweeney says Cong. Melissa Bean is weak on Tax Cuts and Jobs
Jeff Berkowitz: What is it that differentiates you the most [from Cong. Melissa Bean [D- Barrington, 8th Cong. Dist]]?
Dave McSweeney: Taxes, without even a doubt.
Jeff Berkowitz: Taxes.
Dave McSweeney: 100%. I favor job incentives to protect the manufacturing base in this country. We need to keep—the Bush Tax cuts made permanent so that...
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This week’s suburban edition of “Public Affairs,” features Dave McSweeney, who ran in the Republican Primary in March, 1998 against then 8th Cong. Dist. Republican incumbent Phil Crane. McSweeney is a likely candidate to run in the 8th Cong. Dist. March, 2006 Republican Primary for the right to take on the current incumbent, Melissa Bean [D-Barrington, 8th CD]. See the conclusion of this blog entry for a detailed suburban airing schedule of "Public Affairs," and for more about the show with Dave McSweeney.
The show with Dave McSweeney will also air throughout the City of Chicago [in the regular “Public Affairs,” City of Chicago time slot] on this coming Monday night, February 21 at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV].
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A partial transcript of the McSweeney show is included, below.
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Jeff Berkowitz: What is it that differentiates you the most [from Cong. Melissa Bean[D-Barrington, 8th Cong. Dist]]?
Dave McSweeney: Taxes, without even a doubt.
Jeff Berkowitz: Taxes.
Dave McSweeney: 100%. I favor job incentives to protect the manufacturing base in this country. We need to keep—the Bush Tax cuts made permanent so that we can be in a position where small businesses create jobs. For companies that are actually creating a net increase in jobs, we should cut the corporate income tax by 10%-- for companies that create jobs. And we should also be in a situation where we bring about real reform in the tax code, longer term…
Jeff Berkowitz: Creating jobs anywhere?
Dave McSweeney: U. S. jobs, that’s the key. U. S. jobs.
Jeff Berkowitz: You want to give them a tax credit based on the number of jobs that are created?
Dave McSweeney: A tax cut. A cut in the corporate tax income tax rate. For any company that creates at least a net increase of 5% off their job base, we should cut the corporate income tax by 10%. And, that’s U. S. jobs. We cannot allow the manufacturing base in this country to deteriorate. ..
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Berkowitz: … Would it be fair to say that there are a lot of jobs, no matter what you do with tax credits [or corporate income tax rate cuts] that are not going to be returning to the United States, at least in the manufacturing sector?
Dave McSweeney: That’s fair to say—because we had some faulty government policies that have driven jobs offshore. No. 1, taxes are too high. No. 2, we have too much regulation. 3, we need to have tort reform so that we can reign in the trial lawyers—
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Jeff Berkowitz: Did your opponent take a contrary position [on Taxes] during the last election?
Dave McSweeney: Well, my understanding is that Melissa Bean opposed the Bush tax cuts and that became a major issue during the campaign.
Jeff Berkowitz: She did later. Maybe she did, I don’t know. She was on this show in August, 2004 and she didn’t say how she would have voted on those Bush tax cuts.
Dave McSweeney: I think the documentation throughout the last campaign—
Jeff Berkowitz: I asked her and she said—I think she meant to say it is a hypothetical question. She didn’t quite use that phrasing, but she said she wasn’t there, she would have to see it, it’s complex—
Dave McSweeney: Well, Jeff, you are either for or against it. I mean there are issues that are complex—
Jeff Berkowitz: Well, I don’t know, on my show—
Dave McSweeney: My understanding, Jeff, [is] that multiple times she stated that—it was cited multiple times—that she opposed the Bush tax cuts.
Jeff Berkowitz: She did say on this show, to be fair, that she supported at least many of the individual tax cuts [income tax cuts for individuals]; She thought that both tax cuts [2001 and 2003] were weighted too much toward large companies and not enough toward small companies that are—as she saw it—those were the job creators, the small companies were creating more jobs than large companies—I am not speaking here for Melissa Bean, Congresswoman Bean, but she did give some of that argument on that. Now, would you agree with some of that, at least that you are for individual income tax cuts. Would you also agree when we look at tax cuts, perhaps we should be focusing on tax cuts for smaller, mid-size companies that generate more of the job growth?
Dave McSweeney: We should be focusing on across the board tax cuts.
Jeff Berkowitz: Across the board?
Dave McSweeney: That’s absolutely what the Bush administration did.
Jeff Berkowitz: So, you support those [Bush] tax cuts unequivocally.
Dave McSweeney: Absolutely.
Jeff Berkowitz: 2001 and 2003, all of them. You would like to see them made permanent.
Dave McSweeney: No. 1, it kept us out of the recession. No. 2, we need to make them permanent and No. 3, if I do run, I look forward to debating Melissa Bean so we can get some yes or no answers. That is one of the things that the Democratic Party has been masterful at, is not taking—
Jeff Berkowitz: You would like to debate her? Right here on this set. If you become the nominee, you would want to come on and debate—
Dave McSweeney: I think we should debate at least 15 times.
Jeff Berkowitz: Do you think she will do that, now?
Dave McSweeney: I hope so. She challenged [Cong.]Crane to multiple debates.
Jeff Berkowitz: She certainly did challenge Cong. Crane.
Dave McSweeney: It would be awful hypocritical if she didn’t.
Jeff Berkowitz: Yeah, and we are not going to call her hypocritical yet, because—
Dave McSweeney: Not yet. Not yet. Absolutely not. In fact, let me just state right now that Melissa Bean is a hard worker. I have nothing personal against her. If I run against her, it is all going to be based on the issues.
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Dave McSweeney [R- Barrington], recorded on January 30, 2005 and as is airing on the Suburban edition of Public Affairs this week [week of Feb. 14] and on the City of Chicago edition of Public Affairs on Monday night, Feb. 21 at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21. See the end of this blog entry, below, for a detailed suburban airing schedule.
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Dave McSweeney [R- Barrington], likely candidate in the March, 2006 8th Cong. Dist. Republican Primary debates and discusses with Show Host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz Tax cuts, spending constraints, tort reform, the Iraq War, abortion, gun control and other domestic and foreign policy issues.
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The suburban edition of "Public Affairs," is regularly broadcast every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.
The suburban edition also is broadcast every Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette and every Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. on Comcast Cable Channel 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
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Jeff Berkowitz, Host and Producer of Public Affairs and an Executive Recruiter doing Legal Search, can be reached at JBCG@aol.com
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Dave McSweeney: Taxes, without even a doubt.
Jeff Berkowitz: Taxes.
Dave McSweeney: 100%. I favor job incentives to protect the manufacturing base in this country. We need to keep—the Bush Tax cuts made permanent so that...
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This week’s suburban edition of “Public Affairs,” features Dave McSweeney, who ran in the Republican Primary in March, 1998 against then 8th Cong. Dist. Republican incumbent Phil Crane. McSweeney is a likely candidate to run in the 8th Cong. Dist. March, 2006 Republican Primary for the right to take on the current incumbent, Melissa Bean [D-Barrington, 8th CD]. See the conclusion of this blog entry for a detailed suburban airing schedule of "Public Affairs," and for more about the show with Dave McSweeney.
The show with Dave McSweeney will also air throughout the City of Chicago [in the regular “Public Affairs,” City of Chicago time slot] on this coming Monday night, February 21 at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21 [CANTV].
**********************************************
A partial transcript of the McSweeney show is included, below.
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Jeff Berkowitz: What is it that differentiates you the most [from Cong. Melissa Bean[D-Barrington, 8th Cong. Dist]]?
Dave McSweeney: Taxes, without even a doubt.
Jeff Berkowitz: Taxes.
Dave McSweeney: 100%. I favor job incentives to protect the manufacturing base in this country. We need to keep—the Bush Tax cuts made permanent so that we can be in a position where small businesses create jobs. For companies that are actually creating a net increase in jobs, we should cut the corporate income tax by 10%-- for companies that create jobs. And we should also be in a situation where we bring about real reform in the tax code, longer term…
Jeff Berkowitz: Creating jobs anywhere?
Dave McSweeney: U. S. jobs, that’s the key. U. S. jobs.
Jeff Berkowitz: You want to give them a tax credit based on the number of jobs that are created?
Dave McSweeney: A tax cut. A cut in the corporate tax income tax rate. For any company that creates at least a net increase of 5% off their job base, we should cut the corporate income tax by 10%. And, that’s U. S. jobs. We cannot allow the manufacturing base in this country to deteriorate. ..
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Berkowitz: … Would it be fair to say that there are a lot of jobs, no matter what you do with tax credits [or corporate income tax rate cuts] that are not going to be returning to the United States, at least in the manufacturing sector?
Dave McSweeney: That’s fair to say—because we had some faulty government policies that have driven jobs offshore. No. 1, taxes are too high. No. 2, we have too much regulation. 3, we need to have tort reform so that we can reign in the trial lawyers—
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Jeff Berkowitz: Did your opponent take a contrary position [on Taxes] during the last election?
Dave McSweeney: Well, my understanding is that Melissa Bean opposed the Bush tax cuts and that became a major issue during the campaign.
Jeff Berkowitz: She did later. Maybe she did, I don’t know. She was on this show in August, 2004 and she didn’t say how she would have voted on those Bush tax cuts.
Dave McSweeney: I think the documentation throughout the last campaign—
Jeff Berkowitz: I asked her and she said—I think she meant to say it is a hypothetical question. She didn’t quite use that phrasing, but she said she wasn’t there, she would have to see it, it’s complex—
Dave McSweeney: Well, Jeff, you are either for or against it. I mean there are issues that are complex—
Jeff Berkowitz: Well, I don’t know, on my show—
Dave McSweeney: My understanding, Jeff, [is] that multiple times she stated that—it was cited multiple times—that she opposed the Bush tax cuts.
Jeff Berkowitz: She did say on this show, to be fair, that she supported at least many of the individual tax cuts [income tax cuts for individuals]; She thought that both tax cuts [2001 and 2003] were weighted too much toward large companies and not enough toward small companies that are—as she saw it—those were the job creators, the small companies were creating more jobs than large companies—I am not speaking here for Melissa Bean, Congresswoman Bean, but she did give some of that argument on that. Now, would you agree with some of that, at least that you are for individual income tax cuts. Would you also agree when we look at tax cuts, perhaps we should be focusing on tax cuts for smaller, mid-size companies that generate more of the job growth?
Dave McSweeney: We should be focusing on across the board tax cuts.
Jeff Berkowitz: Across the board?
Dave McSweeney: That’s absolutely what the Bush administration did.
Jeff Berkowitz: So, you support those [Bush] tax cuts unequivocally.
Dave McSweeney: Absolutely.
Jeff Berkowitz: 2001 and 2003, all of them. You would like to see them made permanent.
Dave McSweeney: No. 1, it kept us out of the recession. No. 2, we need to make them permanent and No. 3, if I do run, I look forward to debating Melissa Bean so we can get some yes or no answers. That is one of the things that the Democratic Party has been masterful at, is not taking—
Jeff Berkowitz: You would like to debate her? Right here on this set. If you become the nominee, you would want to come on and debate—
Dave McSweeney: I think we should debate at least 15 times.
Jeff Berkowitz: Do you think she will do that, now?
Dave McSweeney: I hope so. She challenged [Cong.]Crane to multiple debates.
Jeff Berkowitz: She certainly did challenge Cong. Crane.
Dave McSweeney: It would be awful hypocritical if she didn’t.
Jeff Berkowitz: Yeah, and we are not going to call her hypocritical yet, because—
Dave McSweeney: Not yet. Not yet. Absolutely not. In fact, let me just state right now that Melissa Bean is a hard worker. I have nothing personal against her. If I run against her, it is all going to be based on the issues.
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Dave McSweeney [R- Barrington], recorded on January 30, 2005 and as is airing on the Suburban edition of Public Affairs this week [week of Feb. 14] and on the City of Chicago edition of Public Affairs on Monday night, Feb. 21 at 8:30 pm on Cable Ch. 21. See the end of this blog entry, below, for a detailed suburban airing schedule.
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Dave McSweeney [R- Barrington], likely candidate in the March, 2006 8th Cong. Dist. Republican Primary debates and discusses with Show Host and Executive Legal Recruiter Jeff Berkowitz Tax cuts, spending constraints, tort reform, the Iraq War, abortion, gun control and other domestic and foreign policy issues.
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The suburban edition of "Public Affairs," is regularly broadcast every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:30 pm on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Bannockburn, Deerfield, Ft. Sheridan, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods and Winnetka.
The suburban edition also is broadcast every Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. on Comcast Cable Channel 19 in Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove Village, Hoffman Estates, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Northfield, Palatine, Rolling Meadows and Wilmette and every Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. on Comcast Cable Channel 35 in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Glenview, Golf, Des Plaines, Hanover Park, Mt. Prospect, Northbrook, Park Ridge, Prospect Heights, Schaumburg, Skokie, Streamwood and Wheeling.
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Jeff Berkowitz, Host and Producer of Public Affairs and an Executive Recruiter doing Legal Search, can be reached at JBCG@aol.com
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