Article: End Attained, Clinton Mutes Talk of Middle-Class Tax Cut; A Campaign Exercise in Rewriting History

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 ...

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