On Katrina, It's the Tax Cuts Stupid

Check out my new op-ed piece published in today's San Francisco Chronicle that discusses how most political leaders in both parties are ignoring one of the major culprits in the Hurricane Katrina disaster: tax cuts. Republicans point fingers at Democratic state and local officials, Democrats focus on the government's (albeit pathetic) response - but few have the guts to say the obvious: that the government's preparations for this disaster were impeded by an administration that made tax cuts its priority over everything else. Sadly, even fewer have the guts to advocate for repealing the $336 billion in new tax cuts the richest 1 percent of Americans are slated to get over the next five years in order to pay for reconstruction.

This piece previews a much longer and more in-depth magazine piece that will be published in the next week. Stay tuned.

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