Elder: The Language of "Tax Cuts"

Larry Elder

From Townhall.com - A mere nine years ago, 12 Democratic senators voted for the current tax rates, as well as for a complete phaseout of the estate tax. Twelve! By contrast, ObamaCare and the $800 billion "stimulus" package secured votes from zero Republican senators and zero Republican senators, respectively. The media call them the "Bush tax cuts" or the "Bush-era tax cuts" -- but never the "bipartisan" Bush-era tax cuts.

Had President Barack Obama crossed The Aisle to attract 12 Republican Senate votes, the Commission to Chisel Obama's Face on Mount Rushmore would be interviewing stonemasons. When did lifting the top marginal income tax rate paid by the rich -- currently at 35 percent -- become a matter of morality, justice and decency?

To the agenda items supposedly of concern to "the little guy," add another: maligning the rich as wicked, greedy and undeserving.

Stick this on the left-wing list-of-grave-issues, along with global warming/climate change, cap and trade, union card check, "investing in green jobs of the future," renewable biofuels, overturning "don't ask, don't tell," gay marriage, the DREAM Act, suing Arizona for doing something about the problem of illegal aliens, and the First Lady's war on fat kids. Read full column here:

Elder: The Language of "Tax Cuts"