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President Bush plugged his tax-cut plan this week in Nebraska, New Mexico, and Indiana. “Let’s get tax relief to the American people as soon as possible,” he said at a plastics factory. Bush said a Senate proposal for a “little bitty” tax cut of $350 billion over 10 years would not stimulate the economy enough. He backed the $550 billion tax-relief package that passed the House. Steve Achelpohl, chairman of the Nebraska Democratic Party, said the wealthy would get most of the breaks. “You don’t create jobs by giving the richest people in the country more money to invest,” he said. Bush dismissed such criticism as “typical Washington, D.C., political rhetoric.”
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