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Budget Revenues

Roll Back the Bush Tax Cut to Pay for Health Reform

by: jamess

Tue Jun 23, 2009 at 23:28:46 PM EDT

(how to pay for health care reform... - promoted by poligirl)

I caught the Randi Rhodes show today. She was suggesting that all we have to do to pay for Health Care Reform, including a Public Option, was to just Roll Back the Bush Tax Cuts!

What a Brilliant Idea!


Thanks Rhandi ... (So glad you're back btw)


As it turns out, we just need to let the Bush Tax Cuts Expire, when they are due to "sunset" (ie. Don't Renew them!)

When Would the President's Tax Cuts Expire?
by Andrew M. Grossman - April 21, 2004

In 2001 and 2003, President George W. Bush proposed and Congress passed a series of tax cuts to reinvigorate the economy and reduce the government's burden on workers' paychecks. Because of opposition to these measures from some in Congress, they were implemented as temporary tax cuts, all of which will expire by January 1, 2011.

http://www.heritage.org/Resear...
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