“In other words, it will never work.”
Oh, yes it will. True, Demos will not worry about breaking a
pledge down the road. But they will shutter at the thought of
having to make a promise they don’t want to keep. This is as
much political theater as it is anything else and the Demos are
expert at tossing the GOP into the orchestra pit. Time to change
the show a little. You just need to understand that the Demos
crave middle class tax money because that is where most of the
money is.
“You just need to understand that the Demos
crave middle class tax money because that is where most of the money is.”
I won’t argue that...but they also fear the Middle Class, especially the Upper Middle Class, the people making around $200k, in the Blue States, that carried Obama and much of the Congress to victory.
Those people are DEAD SET against paying higher taxes. They are absolutely convinced that they already pay way too much in taxes, even if most if it now is state and local.
They voted for Obama because he did two things, he promised to stick it to the mean Republicans, and he promised that their taxes would NOT go up - only taxes on what they consider “the rich” would go up. They’re certainly getting the first, and it does make them feel good, but they are not about to tolerate the second (increased taxes). The Dems that represent them know that full-well and will not let their taxes go up - at any cost, even if it means a clean extension of the Bush tax cuts. But first they’re trying to find out if the Republicans know their bind. Based on history, the Republicans are TOO STUPID to figure out that they have the upper hand here, but you never know, maybe there will be a surprise.