Who Are They Calling Dishonest?
Posted by Michael Link on March 3, 2008 at 04:20 PM
Over at the RNC blog, they declare an "obvious distortion of the facts" when people say that the tax cuts were a giveaway for the wealthy.
What kind of dishonesty would somebody have to display to make such a wild claim??? Boy, would that person would really have to be a far-left-winger to believe such a thing! For example, one Senator even claimed:
I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportional amount that went to the wealthiest Americans. I would clearly support not extending those tax cuts in order to help address the, the deficit.
Oh yeah, that was McCain.
You know, the guy they're supposed to be trying to get elected.
But let's take a look at the merits and see what the CBO actually said last year, via the New York Times:
Based on an exhaustive analysis of tax records and census data, the study reinforced the sense that while Mr. Bush’s tax cuts reduced rates for people at every income level, they offered the biggest benefits by far to people at the very top — especially the top 1 percent of income earners.Though tax cuts for the rich were bigger than those for other groups, the wealthiest families paid a bigger share of total taxes. That is because their incomes have climbed far more rapidly, and the gap between rich and poor has widened in the last several years.
But now, apparently, McCain is fine with extending the Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest, despite saying exactly the opposite a few years ago.
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