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When is a Tax Cut for 98% of Us Considered a Tax Increase?

Posted by Melissa McEwan, Shakesville at 1:27 PM on March 6, 2009.


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"When is a tax cut for 98 percent of taxpayers portrayed as a tax increase? When some of the small handful of people whose taxes will go up happen to control the nation's news media."Jamison Foser, in his latest column for Media Matters, which is a must-read.

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Melissa McEwan writes and edits the blog Shakespeare's Sister.


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