Free Market
Author:
Laurence M. Vance
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The Free Market 14, no. 11 (November 1996) In the famed 1995 budget battles between the White House and the Congress, Bill Clinton told a whopper that put him on the rhetorical offensive. He said that Congress’s proposed cuts in a particular program amounted to “raising taxes on the poor.” It was classic Clinton: he could oppose a bill that