Rightward ho!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 3 13:50:47 PST 2001


Charles Brown wrote:


>CB: On the Bush tax cut, does it really matter ? The rich are
>already so rich and what is there to cut in social programs ? There
>isn't much federal money left for the working class , is there ?

Be even less if there were a tax cut. Still, you could imagine cuts in Food Stamps, Medicaid, and public housing.


> Welfare is abolished as we knew it. HUD is reinvented into
>oblivion. etc. What do we care about the federal government ( sorry
>) ? Have the rightwing and the caps almost reached diminishing
>returns with respect to redistributing wealth upward by manipulating
>the federal government ?

No.

Doug



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