Everything Can Be Blamed On Bush
Yes, if you're Slate, you can say with a straight face that the Alternate Minimum Tax is a secret Republican plot against Democrats.
Note the unstated presumptions:
a) No evidence in the article that the tax actually hits Democrats more than Republicans. It might, but some data would be nice.
b) No evidence that Republicans are blocking bills put forward by Democrats to get rid of AIM.
c) No evidence that if Republicans put such a bill forward, the 'secret tax on Democrats' would be killed with Democratic support.
This is really silly to be run as a leader article.
Comments
Posted by: MG2 | April 15, 2004 12:14 PM
Posted by: Anthony | April 15, 2004 1:46 PM