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

By Melissa McEwan, Shakesville
Posted on March 6, 2009, Printed on May 27, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/130491/when_is_a_tax_cut_for_98_of_us_considered_a_tax_increase

"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.

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

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