Bill Clinton may be changing his mind about the middle-class income tax cut that he campaigned for during the primary season.
The Arkansas governor, drafting an economic plan for the general election campaign, said Thursday his opponents in New Hampshire and other primary states "always made more of the middle-class tax cut than I did in my speeches."At a breakfast meeting with reporters in Washington, the man who will formally claim the Democratic presidential nomination next month said he remained committed to "the idea of tax fairness."
He said the middle class pays higher taxes and has lower incomes than it did in the 1970s, and that the reverse was true for the wealthy. "And I think something needs to be done about it."
But asked whether he was backing away from the cut he embraced last winter, he made no direct response.
Spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers said Clinton no longer was certain he supported the 10 percent income tax he advocated for the middle class.
"He's still going to raise taxes on the rich, and still going to provide some kind of middle-class tax relief. He's just talking what the best way is to do that," she said.