Joel Hefley: “has anyone noticed that any tax cut proposal made by Republicans is reflexively labeled tax cuts for the wealthy by the…”

“has anyone noticed that any tax cut proposal made by Republicans is reflexively labeled tax cuts for the wealthy by the liberal Democrats. Given that the tax cuts in the balanced budget amendment are targeted at middle class taxpayers, I interpret this strange reaction in one of two ways: It means that either they think middle class taxpayers are rich, which must be news to a lot of middle class people who live very modestly, or it means that they really do not like the idea of tax cuts at all, because it means that big government programs cannot expand as fast as they want. Of course, there could be other interpretations. It could simply reflect the confusion so common among liberal Democrats about whether tax money already belongs to the taxpayers who earned it, or whether the tax money actually belongs to the politicians who then spend it in Washington in ways designated to get themselves reelected. It could also be plain old fashioned envy, a favorite tool of liberals. Whatever it is, such nonsense should be ignored and the middle class should get tax relief.”