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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: Mephisto who wrote (1843)	2/16/2001 6:06:38 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (3) of 93284

SECOND REPUBLICAN DISSENTS ON TAX PLAN Rhode Island Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee split with his party today, opposing President Bush's proposed $1.6 trillion tax cut. He is the second Republican to do so this week. Chafee said he would opposed the plan if the vote were held today, arguing that the cut is "too big, too early." Earlier this week, Republican Senator James Jeffords of Vermont announced he also opposed the size of the Bush tax cut and its lack of support for low and moderate-income people. However, Georgia Democrat Zell Miller says he will support the president's tax cut. Meanwhile Democrats today unveiled their own alternative tax cut plan. The plan would divide the available budget surplus, not including Social Security and Medicare, into thirds. It proposes $900 billion for tax cuts, $900 billion to pay down the debt, and another $900 billion for priorities such as prescription drugs and education. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle says the Democratic plan is more fair than the president's proposal, which uses 96 percent of the surplus strictly for tax cuts.

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