More tax cuts for the wealthy

With Lyndon B. Johnson, we tried to have both guns and butter. With George W. Bush we try to have guns and Lamborghinis.

House and Senate Republican negotiators reached a final agreement yesterday on a five-year, nearly $70 billion tax package that would extend President Bush's deep cuts to tax rates on dividends and capital gains, while sparing about 15 million middle-income Americans from the alternative minimum tax.