Bid to Save Tax Refunds for the Poor Blocked. $13 Billion in Corporate Welfare Instead.



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Topic: Politics > Politics-USA
User: "Harry Hope"
Date: 24 Sep 2004 09:24:29 AM
Object: Bid to Save Tax Refunds for the Poor Blocked. $13 Billion in Corporate Welfare Instead.
From The Washington Post, 9/24/04:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43278-2004Sep22.html
Bid to Save Tax Refunds for the Poor Is Blocked
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 23, 2004; Page A04
Congressional negotiators beat back efforts yesterday to expand and
preserve tax refunds for poor families, even as they added $13 billion
in corporate tax breaks to a package of middle-class tax cuts that
could come to a vote in the Senate today.
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Compassionate conservatism in action.
Harry
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