Jokers:

In this ABC News report on the tax cut, we read: (excerpts)

House and Senate tax writers struck agreement Wednesday on a $350 billion tax cut that Republicans leaders plan to pass by Memorial Day.

Voinovich, who had worked with other moderates to limit the Senate's tax cut, spent the afternoon with Vice President Dick Cheney in the private hideaway office of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas, R-Calif., to shrink the cost of the package.

The negotiators agreed to move up the expiration date of one of the bill's most expensive provision, which cuts taxes on capital gains and dividends to 15 percent. The policy had been set to expire after 2009. It would now expire in 2007, 2008 or 2009, depending on analysis still under construction by congressional tax experts.

Why not have the policy set to expire after 7:23 AM March 18 2008? Whatever it takes to get the numbers down, right boys?

Note also that when it comes to anything of substance, Cheney is the guy calling the shots.

posted by Quiddity at 5/22/2003 12:44:00 AM