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those rogue nations out there.
But Walter Longyear likes to cut taxes - a core value for him. So does George W. Bush, whose across-the-board tax cut, as analyzed by Citizens for Tax Justice, would, when fully phased in, give some 43 percent of its tax cuts to the wealthiest one percent of all taxpayers.
Recently, Mr. Bush said that he is now a member of that elite group. Indeed, CTJ has determined that the Bushes “are likely to report total adjusted gross income in each of the next several years in excess of • $2 million annually.”
By 2006, when his tax cut is fully phased in, the Bushes “can expect a reduction in their federal income tax bill of almost $100,000 a year.” (CTJ, Feb. 12 2001).
Conflict of interest, anyone?
Lee Bird
Washington
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