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The speaker said she prefers a direct tax cut over tax rebate like the one pushed by President George W. Bush a year ago. The speaker said a direct tax cut can have a more immediate impact on the economy, especially if the government adjusts tax withholding tables to speed dollars into worker paychecks. "The impact is faster than a rebate, which takes a few months to get into people's hands," she said in the interview.

Pelosi-speak translation: "We need to figure out a way to get your money faster than waiting for the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010. We're going to implement Obama's plan for tax cuts for the bottom 40% of wage earners (who pay no income taxes) now. And we're going to make it permanent. Where are we going to get the money to write annual welfare checks to people who don't pay taxes? By adjusting the tax witholding tables to punish those eeeevil, selfish, unpatriotic rich people Obama promised to give a tax increase. Duh!"