Posted on 02/03/2003 12:46:18 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:00:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Many liberal Democrats who have denounced President Bush's tax cuts as a giveaway to the rich voted for a bill in 1986 that reduced the rate paid by the wealthiest Americans much more than Mr. Bush's plan would.
Since Congress passed the across-the-board, 10-year income-tax-cut plan in 2001, Democrats have been attacking Mr. Bush for lowering the top rate to 35 percent from 38.6 percent for people earning more than $200,000 a year. Many of the president's fiercest Democratic critics, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, have called for freezing the top rate where it is.
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I am glad they are calling out the Idiots on their hypocrisy.
More Idiocy from the 'Party of Altruism.' (so long as the serfs are paying for said Altruism, that is)
:-)
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