The McCain/Saxton Proposal: A Supermajority Antidote to Washington's Pro-Tax Virus
Last year's budget summit agreement proved how easy it is for Congress to impose higher taxes and spending on the American people. As a result of the Bush-Democrat budget, the tax burden on American workers, families, businesses and consumers now is at.an all-time high. Not surprisingly, this record tax burden helped trigger the current recession, just as similar high-tax, high-spending government policies in the 1970s helped ignite the nation's Last economic crisis. Violating the budget architects' promises of last year, the higher taxes have not been used to trim the federal d...
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