US United Front Cracks Over Tax Cut
Despite efforts from both
sides of the political divide in the United States to present some kind of united
front in the face of the international fight against terrorism, there are signs
that the bipartisan agreement is beginning to fall apart, with key Democrats
unable to contain their doubts about the President's signature tax cut any longer.
Following admissions from
the Bush administration that the government will be forced to run budget deficits
at least until the end of 2004, and that they will seek to increase the limit
on government borrowing for the first time in almost five years, Congressional
Democrats have laid the blame squarely at the door of the$1.35 trillion tax
cut pushed into law in the spring. 'I don't think that there's
any question that the deficits have been created in large measure because of
the tax cuts that were passed at the insistence of the administration,' Senate
Majority Leader Tom Daschle asserted earlier this month. However, although the majority
of House Democrats have backed a proposal to rescind future installments of
the tax cut aimed at wealthy families, Senator Daschle has refused to urge serious
reconsideration of the issue on the administration, claiming that it would be
a wasted effort unless any of the 12 Senate Democrats who supported the measure
have changed their position. .
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