Kerry Pushes for Repeal of Some Tax Cuts

[Feanorcurufinwe]

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Tuesday pushed for the repeal of President Bush's tax cuts for wealthy Americans to finance the $87 billion the president is seeking for the military and reconstruction of Iraq.


As the Senate was poised to consider the aid package, Kerry and Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., planned to offer an amendment to the $87 billion request that would repeal tax cuts for individuals making more than $300,000 a year.

"The Bush administration is asking us to pay more and more for its failures - another $87 billion that the American people are being asked to shoulder alone and which America's middle class is being asked to shoulder disproportionately," Kerry said in a speech at the Brookings Institution.

The Massachusetts senator used the speech to assail the Bush administration's diplomatic efforts and its handling of postwar Iraq. The decorated Vietnam War veteran, who later opposed the conflict upon his return from combat, also compared Bush's efforts to another Republican president - Richard M. Nixon.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22780-2003Sep30.html

[rogerashton]

1. Sounds smart to me.

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