another view of Daschle

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Fri May 24 11:52:59 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu>


>I'm not sure we're really in disagreement here, but when is a Democrat
going
>to be bold enough to acknowledge the obvious: real progress requires tax
>increases?

Well, despite the brickbrats, Clinton did. He enacted, as the Right likes to point out, the largest tax increase in American history. It's one reason I still think progressives should give him more credit than they do.

-- Nathan Newman



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