Friday, June 10, 2011

Pawlenty's Economic Plan Cuts Taxes for Millionaires by 41 Percent

Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: "2012 presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty (R) yesterday laid out his economic 'plan,' which is based around huge tax cuts that Pawlenty claims will spark a decade of 5 percent GDP growth, even though growth staying at that rate for that long has literally never occurred in America. As Michael Linden noted, Pawlenty's tax plan would cost $7.8 trillion over ten years, triple the size of the Bush tax cuts. During his speech introducing the plan, Pawlenty excoriated President Obama as 'a champion practitioner of class warfare.' 'I come from a working class background. I didn't grow up with wealth. But I've never resented those who have it,' Pawlenty said. But as a new analysis from Citizens for Tax Justice shows, in addition to being outrageously expensive, Pawlenty's tax plan is based on the Republican brand of class warfare - giving millionaires huge tax breaks."
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