Yep, having taxpayers keep more of their own money is a raid on the national Treasury. /sarcasm.
A more appropriate opening would be "Having reduced the federal government raid on taxpayer's pockets"
real Workers' Daily World stuff. I'm surprised the Times hasn't started printing its paper in cyrillic.
Nah, Russia is much more capitalist than the NY Times nowadays.
They speak of it as if it's some sort of natural resource.