Today I saw politicians discussing the Democrat's proposed tax increase on TV. The Democrat lady congressperson filibustered so the Republican didn't get to say much. The Republican charged that the Democrats were pushing the largest tax increase in history. The Democrat said that was not true, they are just balancing the budget. (That seemed like an evasion to me.) The Democrat said that Bush had cut taxes too much on the rich. She said the Democrats will restore "fairness." When I hear someone mention fairness with regard to taxes I know I'm listening to a liar because taxes are are inherently unfair.

Later I saw two congressmen discuss the same thing. Again the Democrat filibustered so the Republican didn't say much. The Democrat again talked about Republican failures over the past six years rather than what Democrats have passed. He did say they have fixed the AMT (which he said Republicans have refused to deal with.) The Republican had a chart that showed that taxes on 113M people would go up an average of over $2000 per year. (Almost half of the people do not pay income taxes, so 113M covers most everyone who pays income taxes.) The Democrat didn't comment on this and wouldn't say whether or not the 15% tax rate on dividends and capital gains will be eliminated: he didn't want to talk about specifics of the budget, perhaps because he was too busy talking about past Republican "failures."

The Democrats are clearly running on "Republican failures." I wonder if that will work in 2008, after they have had control of Congress for two years.