February 01, 2004
cookie MONSTERS
 What is it with Donks and cookies?
Pedophiles have used cookies to lure innocent children. Hillary
didn't want to bake them, and now it seems John Kerry stole his.
Ain't they cute? To wit, this HILL
article excerpt:
"To hear Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) tell
it, his brief foray into the cookie business in the late 1970s gives
him a leg up on the concerns of small-business owners. Earlier this
month, the Democratic presidential candidate introduced his
small-business program with vignettes from his own cookie-making
experience.
"Yet all that experience kind of, well, crumbles, in the mind of David
Liederman, another cookie entrepreneur. Liederman, the founder of the
David’s Cookies chain, claims Kerry ripped off the idea from him.
“The bottom line is he just stole it from me,” said Liederman, now a
restaurateur and real estate developer in the New York City suburbs.
The Kerry campaign sharply dismissed Liederman’s charge.
[continue reading How did the
Kerry cookies crumble?]
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“I had always had this entrepreneurial piece of me, and I saw it as a great business opportunity.” And this experience, Kerry continued, “stood me in great stead on the [Senate] Small Business Committee.”
Well, his entrepreneurial piece must be small because he wants to raise the income tax rate on small businesses from 35% to 45%. Large corporations pay 35%
Of course Kerry, being a tool of Big Ketchup and Big Pickle, would want small businesses to pay more of their revenue in income taxes than large corporations.