Bush spin on taxes

SpinSanity, a site which offers contradicting figures to spin spun form both sides of the campaign, illustrates Bush’s willful deception on his “everymans’s tax cut”

Bush repeatedly suggested that many or most small businesses would benefit from reducing the top marginal income tax rate – when in fact, according to the Tax Policy Center, only 1.4 percent of small businesses with positive incomes paid at that rate. The President has now come full circle, going from selling his own tax plan with deceptive statistics to denigrating his opponents’ with the same misleading spin.

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