If one did a search the would dicover EVERY tax you can think of was passed by the Dims. The last tax cut by a Dim was the Kennedy tax rate cut.
Per Scott in Florida:
>>I have to agree that the 'Republicans' have stayed, but not as far as the >>Dims...
>
> Turning a 200 billion surplus into what?.... Half trillion
> deficit? Probably more by all accounts. One can attack
> the 200 billion surplus numbers.... but nobody can say it was
> deficit. Likewise, with enough creative accounting, one
> can probably minimize the current deficit.... but I don't think
> that any responsible person would deny that it's size is
> significant.
>
> That's a pretty big stray for a party whose traditional values
> are rooted in economics 101 - or used to be.
>
> Don't get me wrong: I don't think the dems are going to be any
> better.
>
> Now that the party of supposed fiscal responsibility has
> discovered that it can successfully pander to the credit card
> mentality, it seems to me like there's really no hope at all -
> and the dems are going to do the same thing.
>
> Anybody else hear the attacks on Huckabee to the effect that he
> raised taxes in his home state?
>
> In the long run we're all going down either way unless the
> national consciousness is somehow miraculously raised to include
> the idea that you have to pay for what you buy and paying now is
> a *lot* cheaper than paying later.... and if you don't want to
> pay now you probably shouldn't buy now.
>
> But I wouldn't hold my breath.
>
>
> My only rationales are:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> - Turning around and voting again for the guys that sold me out
> in such a huge way would send the wrong message - not that
> anybody gives a damn how one wacko in southeastern Pennsylvania > votes - but still...
>
> - Seems to me like the only thing that's left after the
> Republicans reneged on monetary/fiscal responsibility is a
> bunch of mean-spirited people who pander to the religious
> right and politicize science and technology to a degree
> that previous politicians have only dreamed of.
>
> - If I live long enough, I'm probably going to be ruined by
> inflation either way, so I might as well vote for the side
> that shows a little heart for the have-nots.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> OTOH, his party aside, I could go for McCaine. He fell off the
> "straight talk express" briefly during the market thing in
> Baghdad... but in general he seems to have the most personal
> integrity of all of them.
>
> Rudy seems too combative and egotistical to have his finger on
> the trigger. I've also read accounts of him firing people
> because they got too much good press - taking glory away from
> him. And then there's judgment and the Bernie What's-His-Name
> thing.... But the combativeness alone disqualifies him in my
> book.
>
> Huckabee sounds like the mensch of the group, but not believing
> in evolution has such wide-ranging intellectual implications -
> aggravated by the current administrations's politicization of
> science. Besides, a number of truly horrible rulers have been
> notably charming.... so the mensch bit probably counts for zip.
>
> Romney's such a chameleon that I don't have any feeling for who
> he is.
>
> Going back to the dems, I've heard Warren Buffet - who I would
> say probably has more IQ points than me, my immediate family, and
> all my ancestors put together... and is definitely nobody's fool
> - say that both Clinton or Obama are fully capable of doing a
> good job.
>
> My biggest worry is having a democratic president and a
> democratic congress at the same time. Maybe I'll vote
> Republican next congressional go-around.
>
> Seems like the same party in power in both places is just bad
> ju-ju. Republican/Republican... Democratic/Democratic.... same
> thing. Too many hands in the cookie jar and not enough
> adversarial relationships to make them at least feel nervous.
> --
> PeteCresswell