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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (57412)	7/24/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

More shameless Dem. hucksterism: From Media Research: Loving that liberal soundbite: "Thousands for the rich. Pocket change for working Americans. That's the Republican tax deal." So thundered Democratic Congressman John Lewis on the House floor Thursday in a soundbite played by ABC, CBS and CNN, the only clip that made it onto all three networks. The CBS Evening News did not run a full story on the House passage of a tax cut bill, but Dan Rater still managed a tilt to the left as he relayed Clinton's spin without mentioning a pro-GOP argument: "The Republican-controlled House voted today for tax cuts totaling almost $800 billion over ten years. President Clinton says he will veto any legislation of the sort. The President favors a more modest tax cut in the $300 billion range. The President says his plan will leave some money to knock back the national debt and shore up Medicare and Social Security." On ABC's World News Tonight, Linda Douglass opened with Congressmen Jim Nussle and Dick Armey saying how the money earned belongs to the people and should be returned to them. In order to win over resistant moderates, she noted, the leadership had to craft a "shaky compromise" saying that if interest on the debt rises then the income tax cut would be suspended for that year. Douglass continued: "But some economists warned that plan might be unworkable because interest on the debt is hard to calculate and the IRS might have to keep revising tax rates. At the same time other parts of the tax reduction package would go into effect. The cut in capital gains and the phase out of the inheritance tax. So Democrats argued the only people sure to benefit would be the wealthy." John Lewis: "Thousands for the rich. Pocket change for working Americans. That's the Republican tax deal." Douglass concluded: "The President says he would veto the House plan and the Senate won't pass it either. But House Republicans think they have scored points with their core voters, the ones most likely to turn out next year." Over on the NBC Nightly News Gwen Ifill outlined how the bill's passage was a big victory for Speaker Hastert, but he had to twist arms to get a victory. After allowing Republican Tillie Fowler to argue that tax money does not belong to the government but to the people, Ifill contended that by winning Hastert "trounced Democrats who argued the massive tax cut is outsized and reckless." She then played the Lewis soundbite: "Thousands for the rich. Pocket change for working Americans. That's the Republican tax deal." Viewers of CNN's The World Today also heard the Lewis bite in the piece filed by reporter Bob Franken. None of the stories pointed out how the rich pay a lot more than their fair share in taxes. As Washington Times Inside Politics columnist Greg Pierce noted July 22 in picking up a Wall Street Journal item, "the top ten percent of individual income tax returns for 1996 accounted for 62.5 percent of such taxes collected," but "those taxpayers accounted for only 41.6 percent of total adjusted gross income." These people are just SICKENING. JLA