03-23-2005, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Seaver
Washington Times is hardlined right-wing? WOW.... they've been one of the few NE'stern newspapers who haven't been found making up stories or purposely changing facts.... but they're hardlined rightwing.
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I don't know what you know about the Wash. Times, but they are ALWAYS change facts. Just a few examples:
In the March 10 edition of The Washington Times, reporters Bill Sammon and Amy Fagan falsely claimed that under current law, the Social Security system will "become unable to pay any benefits as early as 2042." In fact, according to the most recent projections by the Social Security trustees, the system will be able to pay promised benefits in full until 2042, at which point it would still be able to cover 73 percent of scheduled benefits. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that the system will be able to fully pay promised benefits into 2052, at which point it would still be able to cover 78 percent of scheduled benefits. In the March 10 edition of The Washington Times, reporters Bill Sammon and Amy Fagan falsely claimed that under current law, the Social Security system will "become unable to pay any benefits as early as 2042." In fact, according to the most recent projections by the Social Security trustees, the system will be able to pay promised benefits in full until 2042, at which point it would still be able to cover 73 percent of scheduled benefits. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that the system will be able to fully pay promised benefits into 2052, at which point it would still be able to cover 78 percent of scheduled benefits. Washington Times chief political correspondent Donald Lambro touted a misleading claim from the conservative Tax Foundation that "President Bush's tax cuts further reduced the tax burden of low- and middle-income taxpayers, and shifted the tax burden onto wealthy taxpayers." In fact, an August 2004 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study showed that Bush's tax cuts shifted the overall federal tax burden so that a larger share now falls onto the middle class, while high-income Americans now pay a smaller share.
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