After catching the administration in four lies, Timothy Noah can tell what the truth is.

Lie number one:
"My jobs and growth plan would reduce tax rates for everyone who pays income tax."
Some low- and middle-income families are excluded from the child-care tax credit.

Lie number two:
$30 billion in tax cuts had to be taken out of the bill to suit Sen. George Voinovich, a Republican deficit hawk.
could have been handled by going to a top rate of 35.3% instead of 35%. Those guys wouldn't even have noticed the difference.

Lie number three:
all taxpayers would receive tax cuts, because the people affected by the exclusion weren't taxpayers.
8.1 million tax filers would receive no cuts.

Lie number four:
"People in the 10 percent bracket, they benefit the most from" the Bush tax cut
89 percent of all single taxpayers in the 10 percent bracket would receive no tax relief.

When people give many different explanations about why they did something, and all of them turn out not to be true, chances are they don't want to talk about the real explanation.
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Perhaps what Fleischer and others in the Bush administration long to say, and yet can't, is that taxing the poor, far from being a regrettable byproduct of lowering taxes on the rich, is a good in and of itself.

Despicable. Simply Despicable.