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Article: End Attained, Clinton Mutes Talk of Middle-Class Tax Cut; A Campaign Exercise in Rewriting History
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- The Washington Post
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- June 23, 1992
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The saga of Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's middle-class tax cut is
an instructive story of politics and economics and how the two
intersect in a presidential campaign.
In the new economic program he announced Sunday, Clinton sharply
scaled back - but did not abandon - his support for the measure. But
the bare-bones reference to it in the 22-page document he issued
only ratified what has been obvious to anyone following Clinton
around the country the past two months. Once the middle-class tax
cut had served its political purpose, Clinton largely quit talking
about it.
He and his campaign are now engaged in some rewriting of
history, suggesting that the proposal never played a central role in ...