Politicizing Treasury

By Sam Felder on April 19, 2004 3:37 PM | | Comments (1)
Although I have been silent for some time (moving, work, redesigning as always), there is news today that is too aggregious to pass up. The Treasury Department has taken to including the following as the footer on press releases:
America has a choice: It can continue to grow the economy and create new jobs as the President's policies are doing; or it can raise taxes on American families and small businesses, hurting economic recovery and future job creation.

Whatever you think about the veracity of this statement, it ias being printed with our tax dollars!

For context, this is not the first time the Treasury Department has been used for political purposes by this administration. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that "Treasury used civil servants to project costs of Kerry's tax plan, an analysis Republicans seized upon to bash the Democrat, despite a law barring career employees' working for a political campaign."

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R. Davis said:

The text of some of the Treasury bulletins was even more partisan than the text in question. I wrote and posted an article on the subject at the URL attached to this message ( http://home.att.net/~rdavis2/treas1.html ). Feel free to use it in whatever way you wish.

April 25, 2004 5:49 PM

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