Spot the bias.

[oldhat]

Via Kos.

Quick question. Is the following quote 1) a Bush Administration press release, or 2) a supposedly neutral AP wire story?

President Bush's campaign to make the tax code simpler, fairer and more pro-growth is likely to involve incremental changes to the current system rather than a sweeping effort to scrap the venerable income tax for a radically new approach, such as a national sales tax.

Answer here.

[Touchdown]

1. Let's see..."Simpler", and especially.

"Fairer and Pro-growth."

If it was a snake...:eyes:

[oldhat]

3. You know what's annoying?

Huge fonts.

[Touchdown]

5. You know what else is?

Off topic responses.

[newsguyatl]

6. LOL!

good one!

[oldhat]

7. Er, no.

If you could keep the giant WWIII headline font posting to a minimum, that would be great, please.

[Doctor_J]

2. What's the diff

between AP and the WH press office? :shrug:

[immoderate]

4. How do you spell "we're fucked!"?

--IMM

[Straight Shooter]

15. F-o-u-r m-o-r-e y-e-a-r-s o-f *

How's that? :P

[immoderate]

19. that'll do.

--IMM

[secedeeconomically]

8. They want to implement a VAT? I thought

Repubs hated all things European.

[Cleita]

9. National sales tax?

I can see a barter economy mushrooming overnight. At least that's what I will do. I'll trade you a dozen of my eggs for a small basket of your produce. No money changes hands. No taxes. Period. Do it. These crooks deserve to be beaten at their own game. Seems like the internet is the ideal way to do it too.

[Political_Junkie]

10. Sounds good to me, Cleita.

The internet would be ideal for that.

[Cleita]

11. We should do it.

The national sales tax is a way to make the poor pay the lion's share of the taxes. We really should organize this if it comes to pass. We should also get anyone involved in poor neighborhoods to pool their services or goods as well.

We can call ourselves the socialist resistance or something equally French and commie sounding.

[Political_Junkie]

12. I'm with ya.

I like the sounds of that. :)

[Cleita]

14. Let's see how this plays out.

I might start putting stuff down on paper for future reference though. You should as well, you know ideas and stuff.

I do know that a certain amount of barter goes on around here among professionals. Like my attorney neighbor handled his landscapers divorce for free inexchange for free landscaping. No money exchanged hands, so there was no income and no taxes.

I was piqued at the time because I thought of it as typical Repuke cheating on their taxes, but if they are getting all these legal tax breaks now from (*), we might as well cheat. You can be sure when the tax money stops flowing in, then they will be looking around at all those huge Republican incomes to tax again.

[Lefty48197]

17. We need an information source for people wanting to participate

in the black market economy. Does anybody know of a source of ideas/resources?

[Cleita]

18. EBay?

I think you could find a lot of willing participants there.

[lawladyprof]

13. One difference sales tax conservatives gloss over is that Europe or at

least England (other European countries?) still has a hefty estate tax that is designed to prevent wealth concentration. The weecowboy did away (at least temporarily with ours) before flirting with a repressive sales tax.

[Lefty48197]

16. Trick Question:

Bush Press releases are read on all the networks and they call it news gathering. :crazy:

[anti-fundie]

20. Was this from the AP or Shepard Smith?