Talking taxes: can progressives turn public ambivalence over tax policy into winning politics?(TAX POLITICS)
American Prospect, The, June, 2005 by Borosage, Robert L.; Lake, Celinda
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GEORGE W. BUSH HAS MADE TAX CUTS THE touchstone of his presidency, supporting new ones each year, with the economy in growth and in recession, with record budget surpluses and record deficits, in peace and in war. Most of his fellow Republicans have sworn blood oaths never to raise taxes. They even managed to gain overwhelming popular support for repeal of the estate tax--perhaps the nation's most progressive tax, affecting less than 2 percent of the wealthiest few--by renaming it the "death tax" and peddling a big lie about protecting family farms and small businesses.
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