[an amused spectator]

And wasn't the idea that the tax rate wouldn't exceed a couple per cent?

Well, yeah - but nobody specified whether it was a couple of percent per annum, per month, per week or per diem. :-)

[kittymyrib]

Actually, the promise was that it would never exceed 3%, and that on only the wealthiest tax payers...but you know how much a politician's promise is worth once he has his grasping fingers in your bank account!