The Democrats: still dead

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Fri Mar 23 08:08:43 PST 2001


----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
>The two, Mr Lieberman a Jew and Mr Santorum a devout Catholic, are offering
>legislation containing the tax components of Mr Bush's faith-based
policies.

Although those components are some of the more progressive aspects of Bush policies, since they allow non-itemizers to deduct charitable contributions. Since richer taxpayers already usually itemize and gain deductions for such contributions, it is lower-income taxpayers who benefit from this one.

-- Nathan Newman



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