[ichabod1]

You leave out the fact that there was essentially NO UNEMPLOYMENT when W was in charge.

[BlackElk]

Dubya set the current tax rates many years ago with "the Bush tax cuts." As Rush and Hannity and Mark Levin are fond of saying, we are now talking about Obama's proposed tax increases not Dubya's cuts.

If unemployment was low under Dubya, it is certainly not low now under Obama yet the taxes on the upper crust remain the same as under Dubya adfter his cuts. I am happy to blame Obama if that is what you are driving at. I am a bit of an agnostic on the claim that shaving upper bracket tax rates automatically creates jobs.