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...actually better for the working class than for the wealthy. The millions that the richest Americans took home thanks to the tax cut was still far less than 100 percent of their tax burden, so Bush could claim that he had actually done more for Joe Sixpack than Dick Cheney...
...that cost still had to be paid by somebody, and it sure wasn’t going to be Dick Cheney. Bush decided on the upper middle class; though he cut taxes dramatically for the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers, he did very little for the upper middle class, those taxpayers between the 50th and the 1st income percentiles. This group wound up paying a larger share of the nation’s tax burden—so much so that Bush could cut taxes in a big way for the wealthiest while still claiming, correctly, that he was shifting...
...General Disagreement It's a pity that the american public was not privileged to hear the dissenting voices of professional soldiers such as Lieut. General Greg Newbold [April 17] before incompetent civilians like Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney?and our own Tony Blair?committed the U.S. and its allies to a disastrous war. I wonder whether Bush & Co. ever go to the many war monuments just down the road from the White House and look at the memorials to a terrible waste of good men. David Landau Peacehaven, England...
...Russia has a choice to make ... None of us believes Russia is fated to become an enemy." VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, in the Bush Administration's strongest public criticism yet of Vladimir Putin's Russia, rebuking the Kremlin for restricting citizens' rights and using oil resources as "tools of blackmail and intimidation...
...grip on society in recent years, cracked down on nongovernmental organizations and maneuvered to take control of natural resources and other industries it deems strategic. The Bush Administration, which has grown uneasy about Russian assertiveness beyond its borders, issued an unusually harsh indictment last week when Vice President Dick Cheney said Russia has "unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of her people" and warned Moscow against trying to meddle in the affairs of neighboring countries...