[lbo-talk] the new political environment

Jeffrey Fisher jfisher at igc.org
Tue Mar 30 18:59:13 PST 2004


On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 08:18 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> If that's the public's view, how did the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts
> pass? Why did the Bush administration believe it could get away with
> flouting the public's priorities so ostentatiously? And why has there
> not been-at least as yet-a public backlash against the Bush tax cuts
> and their baleful social implications?

how about, "they effectively spun the tax cuts as job-creating public spending"?

is that true? do the polls tell us whether or not people bought that?

j



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