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On the Homefront: Taxes
03/25/2003

Although I heard Rush mention it when I went to get my lunchtime coffee, I haven't read any commentary on the proposed tax cut that was slashed today. I don't really know how these things work, but I can't help but feel that the timing of this bill could have been better. At any rate, "my" Senator makes an appearance:

Just Friday, the Senate voted 62-38 to reject a similar move to pare Bush's tax plan in half. That plan would have taken the additional money Bush wanted for tax cuts and used it for deficit reduction.

Both moderate Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., and deficit hawk Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., had voted against making the tax cut smaller on that day.

But both voted Tuesday to shrink the size of the proposed tax cut. Tuesday's successful amendment was slightly different, saying it would take some funds that Bush wanted to use for the tax cut and use that money to either to overhaul Social Security or put toward deficit reduction.

Memo to the Rhode Island Republican Party: I will not vote for Lincoln Chafee even if the Devil himself were to be the Democratic candidate opposing him in the next election.

Posted by Justin Katz @ 05:44 PM EST