[Freee-dame]

.Why is it so widely accepted that decreasing the marginal tax rate on individual tax-payers automatically results in decreased tax revenue for government? If we accept that premise we have already half lost the argument on taxation.

"Marginal tax rate" and "tax revenue" are expressions we need to use every time until everyong knows what they mean. Politicians and pundits like to say tax hikes when they are talking about rate hikes. Even if they aren't confused, they want voters to be confused. It's our job to get the point across. Most talk radio people hate numbers themselves. Maybe we'll even teach them.

[cake_crumb]

Remember Bill Clinton hiking taxes to their highest rate in history and selling it to a credulous public as a tax decrease?? While at the same time insisting that forcing banks to give credit to people who didn't have the income to pay it back was...what was it supposed to be, FAIR?? And campaigning for and forcing through PNTR with China, and that whole thing with India would CREATE jobs HERE?