Joe Conason - Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires w...

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Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

Joe Conason

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Es überrascht nicht, dass einige der Superreichen es ablehnten, sich den patriotischen Millionären anzuschließen, als das Agenda-Projekt sie erreichte. Mindestens zwei Personen lehnten die Bush-Steuersenkungen für Millionäre und darüber hinaus - die im kommenden Jahrzehnt weit über 700 Milliarden Dollar kosten werden - als kleine Kartoffeln ab.

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