Associated Press
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
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 to be delivered at the Brookings Institution.
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