Obama and his minions spread their lies and are not challenged. We expect it from the media, but not the opposition party.
Taking from the rich through much higher tax rates in order to help the poor and middle class makes no sense intellectually and has seldom worked in practice. Reducing rates, on the other hand, does increase the share of taxes paid by the highest income-earning group. For example, in 1981, when the highest tax rate on the rich was 70% and the top capital gains tax rate was close to 45%, the richest 1% of Americans paid 17% of total income taxes. In 2005, with a top income tax rate of 35% and capital gains at 15%, the richest 1% of Americans paid 39%.
We suspect that Mr. Obama will discover that when you put "tax fairness" ahead of economic progress, you produce neither.
This presupposes that "fairness," whatever that is, is Obama's goal. Nothing could be farther from the truth. His goal is to appeal to the usual Democratic base of lazy envious resentful losers whose primary characteristic is a profound sense of entitlement to go along with a totally undeserved and inflated sense of self-worth. Although McCain is a liberal anti-gun Vincente Fox suck up, Obama is so much worse from every aspect, that there really isn't much of a decision.