Lots more about this issue and these groups such as the Club For Growth and Stephen Moore here:
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7567 The Upper Brackets The Right's Tax Cut Boosters Apr 08 2003 Ralph G. Neas is president of People For the American Way. This is a collection of excerpts from the People For the American Way March 27, 2003 report, "Upper Brackets: The Right's Tax Cut Boosters." The Bush administration and congressional Republican leaders continue to push reckless and irresponsible tax cuts in spite of ever-worsening deficit projections, uncertainties about the potentially huge costs of war in Iraq and its aftermath, warnings from business leaders and economists that the administration's proposed cuts would be harmful to the nation's long-term economic health, and public skepticism from moderate members of Congress from both parties. Who is providing the fuel for the tax-cut engine? A significant part of the intellectual underpinnings and grassroots firepower is coming from a collection of deep-pocketed right-wing groups that are out to drastically limit the role of government. For these organizations, tax cuts are a matter of uncompromising dogma to which the White House is both ideologically and politically committed. [more] Full report: http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=9498 People For the American Way Upper Brackets: The Right's Tax Cut Boosters http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/dfiles/file_173.pdf [Includes full profiles of all the groups involved and their leading lights.] >This doesn't sound terribly disgusting until you actually hear one of the >adds... > >http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/04/16/taxcut.ads.ap/ > >Group Targets Republicans who Opposed Bush's Tax Cut > >Organization Derides 'Franco Republicans' > >Wednesday, April 16, 2003 Posted: 5:06 PM EDT (2106 GMT) > >WASHINGTON (AP) -- A tax cut advocacy group plans television ads in Ohio, >Maine and New York that will focus on lawmakers who opposed President Bush's >proposed $726 billion tax cut. > >Republican Sens. George Voinovich of Ohio and Olympia Snowe of Maine refused >to support tax cuts of more than $350 billion, which effectively blocked >passage of anything higher than that in the Senate. Republican Rep. Amo >Houghton of New York voted against the measure in the House. > >"Not only is this a defeat for the president, it is a defeat for the >Republican Party," said Stephen Moore, president of the Club For Growth, a >conservative tax cut group. > >Moore compared Voinovich, Snowe and Houghton to countries that refused to >support military action in Iraq. > >"Why are his so-called allies in the House and Senate so eager to impede >economic progress? These 'Franco Republicans' are as dependable as France >was in taking down Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein," Moore said. > >Marcie Ridgway, a spokeswoman from Voinovich's office, said the senator >supports tax cuts but only when they can be paid for without increasing the >size of the federal deficit. > >The ads will start Saturday and air in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; >Portland, Maine; and Elmira, New York. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get a FREE REFINANCE QUOTE - click here! http://us.click.yahoo.com/2CXtTB/ca0FAA/i5gGAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
