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Friday, 29 April 2005

Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly has created a handy chart.

Notice that Bush's idea of equitable means "cutting almost everyone's benefits severely."

And also notice that Bush defined "people who are better off" as everyone making over $20,000/year.

Who are, granted, yes, technically, "better off" than someone living, say, in a wet mound of clay, feeding on occasional passing snakes.

(This is not meant to say unfairly that anyone making less that 20K is necessarily doing that. Even with the housing bubble, some people making $12,000 or so a year can still afford dry clay and insects.)