Some questions for Rudy...

In a recent commercial of his, as well as on his campaign website, Rudy Giuliani promises the biggest tax cut in history. As a libertarian who sincerely believes in lower taxes with fiscal responsibility, I feel someone should ask Giuliani a few questions:

1. What recourse will we have if you don't present meaningful tax cuts to congress? For example, would you be willing to sign a sworn affidavit that you will do this, and that you'll support any effort to impeach you for perjury if you fail to do this?

2. How do you propose to get Congress to pass those tax cuts? President Bush's much more modest tax cuts faced strong resistance and ended up watered--down despite the fact he had a more cooperative congress than you're likely to have.

3. What programs are you going to end to lower government spending to responsibly fund the tax cut? Since meaningful tax cuts would likely require whole cabinet departments to be shut down, might you follow through with Reagan's and Gingrich's promises to abolish the Department of Education? I must point out that tax cuts funded through deficit spending are nothing of the sort--since they defer the taxes to later generations.

4. Assuming you can get a meaningful tax cut passed, how, in any way, does this mitigate your questionable track record as mayor of New York City?

It's a shame no one will ask Giuliani these questions on camera.