NYT- Clark and Kerry Offering Plans to Help Middle Class

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January 6, 2004
Clark and Kerry Offering Plans to Help Middle Class
By EDWARD WYATT and DAVID M. HALBFINGER

ASHUA, N.H., Jan. 5 — Gen. Wesley K. Clark on Monday proposed a broad overhaul of the tax code that would eliminate federal income tax payments for families of four earning up to $50,000 and cut taxes for families with incomes of up to $100,000.

The plan, which General Clark called a cornerstone of his domestic agenda, would also raise taxes on Americans with annual incomes of $1 million or more.

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Mr. Kerry focused Monday on new proposals for stanching the flow of jobs overseas. He dismissed recent positive economic reports as a "Bush-league recovery" and a "special interest recovery," saying that average income grew by only 3 cents last quarter, though the economy grew at a rate of 8 percent.

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"A quarter of a million call-center jobs have been sent overseas in the past three years," he said. "When people pick up the phone they hear people who've been trained to speak in an American twang and dialect, so you won't know where they are."
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more: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/politics/campaigns/06ECO.html?pagewanted=print&position=

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1. Special Interest Recovery

That's a good one. That is exactly what's happening. Corporations profits are increasing because they're using cheap foreign labor, not because the economy in the U.S. is recovering.