Op-Ed Response

Taxing the Hand That Feeds Us

REPUBLICAN presidential candidates can’t get elected without owning the tax issue. So far, the current crop is giving it away.

A huge reason for Ronald Reagan’s popularity was his cutting of all income-tax rates and ending of “bracket creep,” in which inflation pushed earners into higher tax groups. Congressional Republicans promised a tax credit for children while sweeping the 1994 elections. In 2000, George W. Bush promised to expand that tax credit and to reduce income taxes.

Yes, the top Republican contenders for 2008 are promising to keep all of Mr. Bush’s tax cuts. But the Democrats are not threatening the child tax credit or Mr. Bush’s reductions in the lower-level income-tax rates. Those issues are off the table.

(Taken from: http://www.nytimes.com)

This text was just a piece, taken from an op-ed article on the New York Times website. The very first paragraph, talks about the present. According to the table we made in class, its other characteristics woud be: demonstrative, values, heart, and pathos, but I beleive it's none of those. The paragraph, probably belongs more to the characteristics of Ethos, which are: charater, blame, and gut. This proves that our table doesn't fit all situations.

The second paragraph refers to the decisions of some american presidents in the past. Because of this, I once again think that it doesn't fit the column that it was placed in in class. It belongs more to mind and choice, when talking about Reagans reasons for success and Bush's promises in 2000.

The final paragraph is focused more on the future, when mentioning 2008. It does though, for once, fit the entire clolumn for logos. The facts in this paragraph show mind, and the republicans show choice. This proves that the theory made in class, about wheather the three types of rhetoric should be part of the table or not, coud sometimes fit an entire column, or vary with many different characteristics.