Reply #56: So Bush didn't make any tax cuts??

[Frodo]

If returning to the Clintonian tax base is NOT a tax increase then the new rates must not have been tax cuts right?

The problem with that "logic" is the the voters aren't stupid. If Dean's proposal means I'll pay $3,000 more in taxes next year than I did this year I nkow I got a "tax hike" (regardless of which part of your body you refer me to). It's going to be a much easier "sell" for the other side than pretending that the "non-increase tax change" is not going to hurt them.

And how does one write a tax law that benefits the poor, middle class, AND wealthy? You either pay more or less than you do now. If you want to benefit everybody you're cutting everybody?