The First Presidential Debate in 2000

For the first time face to face the first see of the 2000 presidential election was held at the campus of the University of Massachusetts. For ninety minutes defy night, elected candidate fault President Al Gore and Republican medical prognosis Governor of Texas George W. chaparral battled maven another over tax cuts, prescription drug drugs, Social Security, energy policy, abortion, and education.On issues such as tax cuts, the Vice President proposed a figure, which cut taxes for middle class families, balance budgets either year, and patch up down the national debt. He accused the Governor of peeled taxes for only the wealthiest 1% of the population. Gores plan was for every $1 disposed(p) to things like education and health, another $1 would be given for middle class tax cuts, and for every dollar spent there, $2 would be expended to bring down the national debt. Gore felt that it was grievous to resist squandering the budget surplus. He also felt the prosperity sho uld be used to enrich families and help parents strengthen families, making for sure the schools they attended were safe, and preventing exposure to cultural pollution.Governor chaparrals views on tax cuts differed. His proposal was to put superstar half towards Social Security, wiz fourth towards important projects and the remaining one fourth to the people who pay the bills. Also accusing Gore of Medi Scare, he said he would submit sure all seniors have Medicare and a variety of options to choose from. He also proposed a plan, Immediate Helping Hand, in which seniors could get speedy healthcare if they needed it.Gore opposed his Medicare payment plan verbalize that it would fail to help seniors for the first four to five years and that Bushs plan spends more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent, than all the spending he proposes for education, health care, prescription drugs and national defense reaction combined. He also had much to say about the energy crisis .He wants to explore local areas for gas and vegetable oil, thus reducing dependency upon unusual sources. Gore defendd that reliance overseas for oil should be trim down but had something else in mind to reduce it. He proposed the idea of refreshing trucks, cars, and machinery that reduces pollution and uses less energy. Bush felt that we should, rather than import one million barrels of oil a day from Saddam Hussein, do the oil here. He wants to also join Canada and Mexico in exploring the land for oil reserves.Out of all the comments that Bush made about Gore last night, the most prominent one probably was when he kept on asking why Gores priorities havent been carry through by now. For example, on prescription drugs, he said, It seems like they cant get it done And on energy policy to prevent next shortages he said, He should have been tackling it for the past seven years. Another would be when Gore did the math on Bushs tax plan and demonstrated why it would not be a g ood decision, Bush replied that he was doing fuzzy math. and phony numbers They couldnt even agree on the size of the tax cut. Bush said that he would kick the bucket $1.3 trillion of the predicted ten-year budget surplus to taxpayers. Gore said it would be $600 zillion more than that.