How can O cut taxes on middle class and still fund his social agenda's
Same way the last Dem did.
--a walk back in time
both articles from NYT
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFDE153EF932A05753C1A964958260
Oct 1992 just prior to election
Mr. Clinton has proposed raising the top tax bracket to 36 percent from 31 percent on family incomes over $200,000 a year and single people's incomes over $150,000. He would give a small tax reduction to families he describes as middle income: those with incomes below $80,000. Families with incomes between $80,000 and $200,000 would not have their taxes changed, according to the Clinton staff.
sound familiar????
4 months after election 2-03
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...BA25751C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
In selling his economic plan, President Clinton is gambling that voters never took seriously his campaign promise to lower the tax burden of the middle class and will respond favorably to an aggressive pitch based on equal measures of hope, fear and class revenge.
After months of polling and research, Mr. Clinton's top political advisers say they are convinced that middle-class voters will support higher taxes. The advisers say the voters will see the new taxes as the price of great improvements in Government service and as inflicting a just punishment on the rich who profited during the Reagan and Bush Administrations.
There is a lot of evidence in recent polls to support these hopes, but they rest on a risky political premise: the assumption that middle-class voters will forgive Mr. Clinton his broken promise of tax relief or will accept the contention that he did not unconditionally promise such relief.
"Voters never believed in the middle-class tax cut, because they have never seen anyone get a tax cut," said Mr. Clinton's chief poll taker, Stanley Greenberg.
Same way the last Dem did.
--a walk back in time
both articles from NYT
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFDE153EF932A05753C1A964958260
Oct 1992 just prior to election
Mr. Clinton has proposed raising the top tax bracket to 36 percent from 31 percent on family incomes over $200,000 a year and single people's incomes over $150,000. He would give a small tax reduction to families he describes as middle income: those with incomes below $80,000. Families with incomes between $80,000 and $200,000 would not have their taxes changed, according to the Clinton staff.
sound familiar????
4 months after election 2-03
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...BA25751C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
In selling his economic plan, President Clinton is gambling that voters never took seriously his campaign promise to lower the tax burden of the middle class and will respond favorably to an aggressive pitch based on equal measures of hope, fear and class revenge.
After months of polling and research, Mr. Clinton's top political advisers say they are convinced that middle-class voters will support higher taxes. The advisers say the voters will see the new taxes as the price of great improvements in Government service and as inflicting a just punishment on the rich who profited during the Reagan and Bush Administrations.
There is a lot of evidence in recent polls to support these hopes, but they rest on a risky political premise: the assumption that middle-class voters will forgive Mr. Clinton his broken promise of tax relief or will accept the contention that he did not unconditionally promise such relief.
"Voters never believed in the middle-class tax cut, because they have never seen anyone get a tax cut," said Mr. Clinton's chief poll taker, Stanley Greenberg.
