"$2000 tax hike for families" is a national campaign issue

[acroyear]

Basically, the Republicans are accusing the Democrats of "wanting" and "planning" to increase taxes on "families" by $2000 if they get elected.

I thought this was just the anti-Webb ads, but it shows up in Republican-sponsored anti-Democrat ads all across the country.

It is, of course, spin.

What it really means is that the Democrats are likely to not make the (MANY) Bush tax cuts permanent, so when they expire in 2011, that average $2000 that was cut from the lower and lower-middle class tax burden will likely come back.

The reality is that the Democrats are likely, if they hold the House after 2008's elections (and have a sympathetic new President, regardless of party), to simply propose a whole new tax plan that will ease that burden on families while undoing the ridiculously out of whack tax cuts on the top 1%.

But Republican campaigners, policy-makers, and spin-meisters are hardly likely to look at reality anymore...they haven't for the last decade as far as I'm concerned...

Right now, Democrats can't campaign on that truth yet because 1) they know it will be spun even worse as an admission they plan to "raise taxes" (even if it's just for the ones who can easily afford it), and 2) they are still beholden to corporate overlords as much as Republicans are for funding and aren't yet ready to piss off that financial source yet.

Comments

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, a good friend of mine is probably going to vote for Allen, because his economic conservatism is more important to him than his social liberalism.

At the heart of it, he doesn't see enough in Webb to vote for him. He thinks both canidates are scum, so why change?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

I call that ignorance. I call that not knowing a thing about how our government works and how constitutional protections are in place to keep abuse from destroying this country.

If "both suck", then look at a MUCH bigger picture - putting a party in place that will be a check on the power of the executive.

I don't think the dems have a solution in mind for anything. I do know the republican "solution" has to stop its unchecked advance to the destruction of our collective constitutional rights.

And you might also point out that Allen, like most republicans, is hardly an "economic conservative". Economic conservatism is responsible spending, cutting spending with tax cuts, not creating huge deficits and continuing the pork beyond any previous measure.