where are the old Democrats, like President John Kennedy, who favored tax cuts? The truth is that the 1960's changed the Democratic Party maybe forever. And now liberal Democrats and tax cuts go together like Dennis Rodman and the National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern. So we have to rely on Republicans if average people are to have hope of a tax cut. The liberals were, meanwhile, busy building a great society on the backs of working people. President Reagan gave working people a break in the 1980's and passed tax cuts for everyone who brought home a paycheck. Well, now we have got a President in office that, as a candidate, ran on the idea of tax cuts for the middle class but soon changed his mind after getting elected. This is something that the new Democrats seem to have a habit of doing. So now it is up to the Republican Congress to try to get the same President to get a little tax relief to average American families.
Joel Hefley: “where are the old Democrats, like President John Kennedy, who favored tax cuts? The truth is that the 1960's changed the…”
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Discussing tax cuts and the shift in the Democratic Party's stance since the 1960s.
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