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...been more than just the Iraq war that has abused the federal budget for the past four years; the enormous tax cuts for the wealthiest in this country have sent budget deficits to record highs. Kerry’s sensible tax cuts for the middle class and rollback of the tax cuts for the top 2 percent of income earners will help to relieve the growing financial pressures on working families and set the nation back on the course of financial solvency...
...Until Mark Latham came along. The Labor Party leader's pitch for government includes a pledge to redirect money going to Australia's wealthiest schools toward more needy ones, with Catholic schools set to receive the bulk of it. To many people, this makes Latham a hero. Others are appalled. "The prospect of sectarian tension," says Bill Daniels, executive director of the Independent Schools Council of Australia, "is something this country just doesn't need...
...standard of living for the average American has gone down. People's incomes have dropped. Five million Americans have lost their health insurance. The deficit is the largest it's been in the history of this country. They're taking money from Social Security and transferring it to the wealthiest people in America to drive us into debt. They're shredding alliances around the world with people we have traditionally been able to rely on. That's what bothers...
...many such false notes. None of them are egregious enough individually to lose the reader, but collectively they undermine the tale's impact. Another example: although $500,000 is a lot of money for most people, as the biggest legacy of a legendary sugar tycoon?representing the wealthiest class of a nation in which the divide between rich and poor yawns wide?it's a weirdly under-the-top figure...
Thanks, but no thanks, Mr. President. After four years of acting like lap dogs for corporate America, ramming through tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, pushing for an end to capital gains taxes, and burning through a record surplus, I think we know what to expect when we trust the Bush government to take care of things...