Free Republicans From the Middle-Class Tax Trap: Ramesh Ponnuru
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June 14 (Bloomberg) -- For more than 30 years Republicanshave won elections by promising to cut middle-class taxes, or atleast to stop middle-class tax increases. No domestic issue hasbeen as reliable a vote-winner. But now Republicans are in abind. The huge deficit makes tax-cut promises seem impractical.
They also worry that cutting middle-class taxes will leavehigh earners paying an even larger share of income taxes thanthey already do, and that increasing their burden will harm botheconomic growth and the cause of limited government.