Clinton Echoes Call to Repeal the Bush Tax Cuts Now

[Jon8503]

Apparently, my op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle was timely - today former President Bill Clinton publicly said Bush's tax cuts should be repealed (see the video clip linked below). Granted, he is not a high-profile currently-ELECTED Democrat, but he's pretty high-profile nonetheless. Let's hope the Democratic leadership in Congress and the 2008 presidential contenders start to echo this and make it a central theme in the next weeks and months. Remember, as I noted in my piece, with record deficits and all the bills from Iraq and the Katrina rebuilding piling up, the Bush administration's tax cuts would give $336 billion to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans over the next 5 years. That's money we are literally going to give away to those handful of Americans who make an average of $1 million a year or more. We can't afford it - and it's time for the Democratic Party as a whole make that truth part of its core message moving forward.

Sources:
San Francisco Chronicle op-ed:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/09/16/EDGB7ENOA91.DTL
In TV appearance, Clinton calls for repeal of Bush tax cuts:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/16.html#a4977
Bush tax cuts would give richest 1% $336 billion in the next 5 years:
http://www.ctj.org/pdf/gwbdata.pdf

http://www.workingforchange.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=610E1DDE-97E3-F3A6-95BC80F6F127EB6F

[merwin]

1. That's OK. Our president now isn't isn't 'currently-ELECTED' either -)

[Patchuli]

2. You got that right! Not once, but twice! ggrrrrrr

:mad:

[politicaholic]

3. Raise taxes? And make his daddy's mistake? No way.

Didn't they listen to the speech? He was stumping tax cuts, doesn't the SF Chronical know a sectional stump when they hear it?

Oh, that's right, the media has been asleep for the past four years, nevermind.