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Whitman:Cutting Taxes Not Contingent on Controlling Spending
thinkprogress.org — On ABC ’s Good Morning America today, senior McCain campaign adviser Meg Whitman defended Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) infamous flip-flop on the Bush tax cuts by arguing that McCain voted against them because “they were not accompanied by a decrease in government spending.” “You cannot just keep tax rates low, which is what Americans want, and keep gov
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- Seldon2639, on 07/08/2008, -1/+1Okay, I'm just going to point this out (FTFA):
Whitman: "we have to do both. For the good of the American people, for the good of the American economy, we must do both." (Saying that while you don't strictly speaking have to cut spending in order to cut taxes, as proven by Bush, you really should).
McCain: "spending restraint has got to be a part of any economic package if you’re going to cut taxes"
Can someone tell me how this is a "flip flop"? McCain said that you need spending restraint, and Whitman said that (while there's no compulsion to cut spending) you need to cut spending in order to be responsible while cutting taxes. The only way the headline is accurate is if you truncate what Whitman actually said down to just a one-word answer. I don't like McCain, but this kind of article is just silly
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