AP reported that at last night’s Sheet Metal Workers Union candidates’ forum, Dick Gephardt, Howard Dean and Al Sharpton said the first step to repairing the economy would be to repeal Bush’s tax cuts. Gephardt argued that Bush’s tax cuts are not helping the middle class or creating jobs. He said the cuts are like “handing out candy….This is a joke,” he said. “This is like buying votes.” AP didn’t find it amusing that Gephardt prefers “handing out the candy” of socialized health insurance…as if that wasn’t a better description of buying votes with someone else’s money.