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Standing Up to Tax Cut Charlatans. (Editorials)
Magazine article from National Catholic Reporter,
Vol. 39, No. 25
Beginning of article
There are a lot of Americans, Democrats among them, who should be standing up cheering for two Republicans right about now.
They are Sens. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine and George V. Voinovich of Ohio, who, under enormous pressure from their party leaders (and along with Democrats in the Senate) stood firm and reduced the latest push for irresponsible tax cuts by more than half.
What is at stake here, for those who believe that federally funded programs play a vital role in promoting the general welfare, is nothing less than starving Washington of the revenues necessary to do that job.
First, an essential flashback.
There was a time when Republicans …
