Election-year media la-la land: Where deciding not to raise taxes after all is reported as “cutting taxes”

Posted on July 9, 2012 at 7:46 pm, by

The Associated Press headline:

Obama urges tax cuts for families under $250,000

Obama is doing no such thing. All he is doing is proposing to delay for a year his desire to “end” the “Bush tax cuts”; i.e., hike taxes on families under $250,000. It’s a shame that the Associated Press has so little respect for itself that it allows a double veneer of euphemism rather than reports the unvarnished truth.

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Jon Sanders (twitter.com/jonpsanders) is Director of Regulatory Studies at the John Locke Foundation. A columnist for TownHall.com, Sanders has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, ABC News online, FrontPage Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, the Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous newspapers throughout North Carolina. A native of Garner, N.C., Sanders has been an adjunct instructor in economics at North Carolina State University, and he holds a masters degree in economics with a minor in statistics and a bachelors degree in English literature and language from N.C. State.

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