WaPo's Tumulty Calls Clinton's 1993 Tax Increase a 'Deficit Reduction

Tom Blumer
July 23rd, 2012 12:13 AM
If the idea of tax increases is so darned popular, why do journalists "creatively" avoid using the term? Here's an example from a lengthy Saturday report on Democrat Bob Kerrey's U.S. Senate comeback effort in Nebraska by Karen Tumulty at the Washington Post, wherein she describes the 1993 Clinton tax hikes as a "deficit-reduction plan" (bolds are mine):
 

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