I got this off the Kerry website:

Kerry Statement on Dean and Gephardt's Position to Raise Taxes on Middle Class


January 07, 2004

For Immediate Release


There is an important issue that has long been a fundamental difference in the campaign: raising taxes on the middle class. Cutting middle class taxes is a core value for me, and it's been a bedrock position of mine in the campaign. I strongly disagree with anyone who would raise taxes on the middle class.

Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt want to increase their taxes.

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The rest is a bunch of lies about how Dean and Gephardt's plans would affect middle class taxes. It achieves its spin by ignoring everything except federal income taxes, ignoring the fact that when these go down and revenues to the states go down, and funding for education and health care goes down, you pay more in other taxes to make up for it. So while we pay less in Federal Income Taxes, we pay more in Taxes.

This is how Bush got away with the tax cuts in the first place, and Kerry has played right into his hands.

So, Frank, don't claim that Kerry "didn't make it look like Dean and Gephardt were for 'raising taxes' on the middle class." That's exactly what he did. He did it deliberately and repeatedly, and said it in so many words. You just had to be paying attention for more than three weeks to hear about it.