----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 9:05 AM Subject: RE: Zell Miller on the Dems Southern Problem
> . . .
> Zell's own contradictions are on full display but with a rational
> explanation, surprisingly blunt or cleverly convoluted to keep support
from
> all, but he basically says his goal is to pass universal health care and
> massive increases in education spending. And the best way to do that?
Give
> a big fat tax cut to the rich to establish "trust" with the American
people,
> citing the way Kennedy's tax cuts in the early 60s paved the way for
> Johnson's Great Society. . .
>
>
> That's what I've been saying too, not that anyone
> has been listening. The question is, why did he
> have to support Bush's tax cut? He could have
> advanced progressive alternatives, as big as he
> liked, and established trust with the people
> likely to support health care and education. He
> could have bargained w/Bush to make the proposal
> better, coming out of the chute. Instead he just
> rubber-stamped it.
>
> mbs
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