Citizens for Tax Justice, a non-partisan, non-profit research and advocacy group, has a report out that says newly revised estimates show that the Bush tax cuts cost almost $2.5 trillion over the decade 2001-2010.
Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office put the cost of the Democrats' health care reform at $1 trillion for the decade 2010-2019.
Bush tax cuts cost 2 and 1/2 times as much as decent health care.
Add in the Iraq war at $1 trillion, and Bush cost us 3 and 1/2 times as much as decent health care. And yet the same people who voted for tax cuts and war are the ones yelling that we can't afford health care for our people.
Of course, this should be no surprise. Tax cuts and wars drain the treasury so that the beast of big government starves and there's no money for domestic programs.
No surprise. That was their plan.
Ralph
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I remember the late gov Ann Richards of Texas saying on CNN's Larry King that that was what the Republican party wanted to do give big tax breaks and when there was no money left say we're sorry but we're going to do away with the entitlement programs Social Security and Medicare that they have secretly hated since they were made laws.
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