Media Wont Rest until Taxes Are Raised
Published: 10/12/2005 2:00 PM ET
Media Wont Rest until Taxes Are Raised
Networks flood airwaves with stories
suggesting tax hikes to pay for Katrina and other price tags.
By Amy Menefee
Business & Media Institute
October 12, 2005
A typical question from a network reporter showed annoyance at the presidents tax policy and implied that anything but raising taxes is irresponsible, sounding something like this: The last thing in the world that George W. Bush wants to do is raise taxes, but the amount of money that were talking about here, were talking about many, many, many tens of billions of dollars. Can that be done without raising taxes? That was ABCs Ted Koppel following Bushs address to the nation on September 15.