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Add it Up: Bush Promises $3 Trillion More in Debt

…or commitments. Let’s compare Kerry’s pledge to repeal Bush’s tax cuts on the rich to Bush’s past budgetary promises. If Kerry is elected, and instead proposes making tax cuts for…

…to that joke interesting. Everybody was willing to believe that this had happened, and yet when it became clear that it didn’t, we all felt relief. I’m sure that the…

…now I discovered this: Under the President?s proposal to speed up tax relief, 92 million taxpayers would receive, on average, a tax cut of $1,083 in 2003. * 46 million…

…pay almost twice as much in payroll taxes as in income taxes. Yet people were willing to accept a regressive tax increase to sustain Social Security. Now the joke’s on…

…first, the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, which Mr Bush wants to make permanent at a ten-year cost, when other new proposals for tax-free savings schemes are added in,…

Georgia Decides Not to Mandate Ignorance College biology teachers in Georgia (or anywhere that admits students from Georgia) can breath a sigh of relief that they won’t have to start…

…industry a chance to adjust to the surge in foreign imports and to give relief to the workers and communities that depend on steel for their jobs and livelihoods. These…

…Central Aluminum Co., in Columbus. “Exports are expanding, investment is rising, housing construction is growing. The tax relief we passed is working.” Now Bush is right that that’s a big…

…the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11. MR. RUSSERT: And tax cuts. VICE PRES. CHENEY: Tax cuts accounted for only about 25 percent of the deficit. [And…

Disingenuity without Limit Tom Delay in the NYT: “To me, it’s a little difficult to give tax relief to people that don’t pay income tax.” First, in all the stories…