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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
Well, that's at least in part because the '01 cuts were about keeping a campaign promise, not about being a tax-cut stimulus.
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That's because Republicans can't use the word "stimulus" in anything other than a perjorative sense anymore - the memo is out. Years ago when everyone was getting their $100 checks in the mail from Smilin' George it was touted by all and sundry as a means to give tax money back to the ordinary folks who would certainly invest it more wisely than gubermint ever could, by going out and buying stuff (if you were a little guy like me - I think I spent it on drugs) or creating jobs if you were a big swinging dick like Hank, suddenly freed from a repressive tax burden to go forth and make a thousand flowers of employment bloom. So it was designed to promote consumer spending on the one hand and job creation on the other. But this is not "stimulus" -- oh no no no -- "stimulus" is what Democrats do when they are trying to make this country more like socialist wherever.
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