$318 Billion Deal Is Set in Congress for Cutting Taxes

The one thing that screamed through my head as I read it is that some liberals

The one thing that screamed through my head as I read it is that some liberals don't think the poor should pay any tax what-so-ever.

Democrats Assail GOP on Child Tax Credit
Congressional Democrats, sensing a political opportunity in an otherwise dry season, have launched a furious assault on Republican lawmakers and the Bush administration over a provision in the just-passed tax cut package that deprives millions of low-income families of a tax break for children.

Under the new legislation, those families earning about $10,000 to about $27,000 would not receive the full $400 checks that will be sent this summer. This is because the increased child credit was not made "refundable" -- or turned into a cash payment -- for those who do not pay enough in income taxes to benefit from the credit.

I would assume (I know what happens) that if a user posts an article, they want people to read it and comment on it. Otherwise, keep it to yourself.

Probably because you think everything here is a fight, come in with your dukes up, and are frustrated when some goddamn liberal takes a liberal point of view -- liberal meaning willing to consider new ideas. Suggest maybe it's time for McG to "keep it to yourself."

McGentrix
Why post It? Simple many times it adds to the discussion it may be another viewpoint. That I should think would have been quite obvious. By the way I was not aware that you set the rules on what and why and how something should be posted.
In addition that I don't appreciate your nasty tone. Suggest you drop it

Whose 'Class Warfare'?

Let's have a real debate about class in America. That's just what the people screaming "class warfare" fear most, so bring it on.

President Bush's recent tax proposal is warmed-over Reaganomics spiced with enough audacity, he hopes, to hide the rot. Economists, pols and pundits have panned it, even some conservative ones.

The [tax] plan "may be the least defensible policy ever," one critic, an advisor to GOP administrations since Nixon, told The Washington Post's David Broder...