Article: Economic, Political Advisers Collide Over Clinton's Middle-Class Tax Cut

In February 1992, we learn from Bob Woodward's account in "The Agenda," political adviser Paul Begala turned to Bill Clinton, already having doubts about his proposal for a middle-class tax cut, and said: "Governor, these people are hurting. The middle-class tax cut is hope and cash for them."

James Carville, running Clinton's primary election campaign in New Hampshire, chimed in: "All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right."

But Clinton, responding to the warnings of his economic advisers, began to modify his commitment to a middle-class tax cut. And by the time he took office, with Robert Rubin in place as head of the economic policy team, Lloyd Bentsen as Treasury ...

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