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January 04, 2004

Dean can't handle the truth

Right after Edwards told the audience at today's debate, that if someone tells you they are going to balance the budget and increase spending at the same time, you can't trust them, Dean keeps right on trucking (and misquotes Edwards, as usual):

DEAN: Middle-class people did not see a tax cut. There was no middle-class tax cut. There was a Bush tax increase with tuitions, with property taxes, with health care premiums, and most middle-class people in this country are worse off because of President Bush's so- called tax cut than they are better off.

NORRIS: And tax reliefs that you might propose?

DEAN: Pardon?

NORRIS: And what kind of tax relief are you proposing for middle- and working-class families?

DEAN: We -- ultimately, we will have a program for tax fairness. But right now, I agree with John Edwards. You cannot balance the budget and tell people you're going to keep all these tax cuts. I am going to balance the budget, and I'm going to do it in the sixth or seventh year of my administration. We're also going to have health care...

(LAUGHTER)

What?

ANGER: Do you have anything else?

(LAUGHTER)

We are going to move on...

(LAUGHTER)

As usual, the Washington Post has the full transcript online.

Posted by Mike at January 4, 2004 07:04 PM

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