Article here.
On the front page of the White House website is a major PR push they’re making: “#My2K.” It links here.
The entire campaign is in support of the Bush tax rates, and fighting against the restoration of Clinton’s rates for the middle class. Think about that a minute. The “$2,000 a year” that the middle class has been getting every year for the past decade or more, thanks to Bush and the Republicans. The middle-class tax rates that reduce revenues something like eight times what the Bush tax cuts for those over $250,000 do.
Here’s a slogan the Democrats can run with:
“Barack Obama: fighting like hell to protect America’s middle class from Bill Clinton’s tax rates!”
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Umm...
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The "eight times" is talking about the amount generated by the rate cuts (or increases), not the overall taxes paid.
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Don't look at me. I'm too stupid to read a chart.
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TB's already explained that to us.
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Far be it from me to argue math with a gymnast and a community organizer.
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Why not? We argue with the belligerent elementary school kid all the time.
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Why not? We argue with the belligerent elementary school kid all the time.
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Far be it from me to argue math with a gymnast and a community organizer.
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The "eight times" is talking about the amount generated by the rate cuts (or increases), not the overall taxes paid.