[OESY]

Attitude Check: But I thought blue staters felt a duty to pay high taxes? Isn't that why they're "blue".

[Eccl 10:2]

"As a policy matter, Mr. Grassley would be better off waiting until the bipartisan Bush tax commission puts more reform options on the table."

It's never a bad time to talk about tax cuts, esp this one. It's a good opening salvo to get some momentum going. Kudos to Grassley - unless I'm missing something.

[Paleo Conservative]

Keep the AMT, but make it the flat tax. Anyone who wants to continue using the old system with its deductions and credits is free to do so, but most people would be better off with the flat tax.

[The Great RJ]

Radio ads have been running here by a "non partisan group" supporting the retention of the "death tax" a.k.a estate tax. In the ad a couple discusses why it is so unfair that millionaires and billionaires "who didn't pay any taxes in the first place" can transfer their assets to heirs tax free on death and that with the cost of the Iraq war we need these taxes to support social programs at home.