The Truth About Class Warfare

October 03, 2008

Original publication: The Citizen-Times

Date of publication: October 3, 2008

It's class warfare for presidential candidate Senator John McCain to propose making the Bush tax cuts permanent - a coup de grace for struggling Americans who already saw the median household income go down from 2000 to 2007. This proposal would give raises next year of 4.4percent in after-tax income to the top 0.1 percent and 3.4 percent for the top 1 percent. Combat pay, we assume?

Read the full article in The Citizen-Times.

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