Democrats think raising taxes is a winning political strategy

Roger L.  Simon:

With the economy roaring as it hasn't in decades, the stock market at all-time highs, and unemployment (including for blacks and Hispanics) at all-time lows, the Democrats have just proposed to "fix things" by raising taxes.

Say what?

This proposal, which includes raising the highest bracket and the corporate rate (after years of trying to get it down), plus raising the rates for "30 million companies which are organized as sole proprietorships, partnerships, Subchapter-S corporations, and LLCs" not to mention bringing back the alternative minimum tax (a boondoggle for preparers), will end up costing the vast majority of Americans most, if not all, of the money they just got from the Republicans' tax reform bill.

Call it "Away with all crumbs!"

Only someone as terminally frozen in 1968 as Bernie Sanders, who has emerged as the spokesperson for the proposal, could think of this as anything less than economic suicide. It's not for nothing ol' Bern' took his honeymoon in the former Soviet Union only a year before the wall came down, speaking of deep financial insight.

Surely, Chuck Schumer, standing beside Bernie at the bill's unveiling, understands how idiotic this is. But he's not talking -- or when he is, he's telling what he certainly knows is a particularly creepy lie in the bill's defense.
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Ignore what they say about why they are pursuing this policy.  The Democrats are a party that sees its political strength as growing out of creating dependency.  Tax cuts are the opposite of dependency.  They give the power back to the people.   Would you rather have a job or welfare and food stamps?  With the job growth being realized by the Trump economy that should be an easy choice for most Americans.