The Blackboard is more reliable than the Whiteboard...

     So the White House is trying to take us to school. Too bad their whiteboard presentations cannot be trusted.
     Let's just put an end to the lies they are telling about the Bush tax cuts.
     The progressives keep saying that extending the tax cuts would be expensive, and that the government would have to unfairly pay the rich hundreds of billions of dollars. Why should the rich get all the breaks?
     Nothing like a little class warfare to fan the flames of discontent.
     Just a side note, have you seen the Fabian Window? Just sayin'.
     The truth is that the tax rates established by the Bush tax cuts have been in place for a decade. They were simply a lowering of income earners' tax rates after the Clinton Administration had raised them.
     The fact is we have been living with the same federal tax rates for ten years. There are no new cuts on the table.
     If the White House were telling you the truth, they would tell you this... If Congress allows the Bush tax cuts to expire, the tax rate you have used for the past 10 years will cease... and will increase... for everyone who pays taxes.
     If the White House and the Democrats in Congress were truthful, they would tell you that their plan is quite simple.
     To raise your taxes.
     Additionally, allowing the present tax rates to merely continue will not cost the government a dime. They would still collect the same percentage of revenue as they have for the last decade. They would not be spending any money to continue with the same rates.
     Their logic about tax cuts costing money makes no sense, unless you view taxation the way they do.
     There is only one way the government would consider the notion of not increasing taxes as an expenditure. Because the government thinks that all the money you earn belongs to them, and they let you keep what they deem necessary.
     That is why they think tax cuts are expensive. To them, it means more money they have to give you back.
     And that is why they think that those who earn more should pay a higher percent. Progressive taxation. Because the government has decided that some people make too much... and it is just not fair. Because their money should be spread around evenly.
     During the primary presidential debates, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama why he would raise taxes, even after it had been shown that when you lower taxes, the revenue to the government actually increases. Obama said he would raise taxes anyway "out of fairness."
     There it is. They think they should confiscate the money, out of fairness, and redistribute it as they deem fit.
     It is regrettable that Congress never made the Bush tax cuts permanent in the first place. Regrettable, but completely understandable... once you understand that the progressives in government think that your money is theirs to begin with.