Sunday, March 20, 2005
Media Matters Latest, March 08, 2005
Lambro repeated false claim about effect of Bush tax cuts
Washington Times chief political correspondent Donald Lambro touted a misleading claim from the conservative Tax Foundation that "President Bush's tax cuts further reduced the tax burden of low- and middle-income taxpayers, and shifted the tax burden onto wealthy taxpayers." In fact, an August 2004 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study showed that Bush's tax cuts shifted the overall federal tax burden so that a larger share now falls onto the middle class, while high-income Americans now pay a smaller share.
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