At first this headline seems out of whack, shouldn’t it read Republicans? This tax passed by the House recently put a .5% surcharge on millionaires to enhance the GI Bill giving our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan much needed help in perusing college educations. Can we surmise that even Democrats can no long increase taxes by any trifling amount to pay as we go?
Not really, this is a complicated parliamentary and political game involving separate forms of funding, in this case the differences between war funding and budget funding, and the politics of ending the war.
The bottom line is that any tax increase, even a half a percent upon millionaires or increase in any social program, soldiers or not, will be vetoed by George Bush and upheld by Senate Republicans. As we all know, Jesus hates taxes, it was the basis of his ministry as it is now America’s.
The point of this article is a reminder that no matter which Democrat wins in November, that come February, without a presidential veto on all things reasonable as we have now, things are going to change greatly. In fact it may become so depressing to Republicans in Congress that perhaps it would be a humane endeavor to spend a little tax money to put safety nets below all Republican’s office windows. Or not…