| according to Mr. Blow it is "open piracy for plutocrats." "The unemployment rate is still unbearably high. The Census Bureau reported in September that the poverty rate for 2009 was 14.3 percent, higher than it has been since 1994, and the number of uninsured reached a record high.,,Under the guise of deficit reduction, the Republicans are proposing to not only make the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy permanent, but to reduce their taxes even more -- cutting the top individual rate from 35 percent to 25 percent to "promote growth and job creation."..." And they plan to pay for this by taking a buzz saw to programs that benefit the poor, elderly and otherwise vulnerable." |
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