Tax Day!

by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Today is the day when Joe Biden thinks millions of Americans will perform their "patriotic duty" by scrambling to the nearest post office to mail a check to Uncle Sam. That quote was classic Biden. Here’s a classic Reagan quote: "Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th."

The way Obama and the Democrat Congress are spending our tax money, every day will have to be April 15th if the American people don’t put an end to it. It’s difficult to overstate the threat our economy faces from Obama’s outrageous spending.

But listening to their rhetoric, you’d think Obama, Pelosi and Reid were champions of fiscal restraint. Virtually every Democrat yesterday rushed to the microphone to tell us how they have lowered taxes. The hypocrisy is stunning.

This Democrat president and this Democrat Congress have already passed more than two-dozen tax increases totaling nearly $700 billion, and they are planning even more, including massive cap and trade energy taxes and Nancy Pelosi’s VAT tax.

Obama and congressional Democrats want you to believe that only the "rich" will pay higher taxes, but here’s the truth: We cannot balance the budget on the backs of the "rich." Today's Washington Times points to an analysis by the Urban Institute and Tax Policy Center, which found that "without any serious efforts to cut spending, tax rates on the wealthiest people earning $200,000 or more … would have to rise to prohibitive levels of between 77% and 91%." That’s obviously not going to happen.

Now, here's a reality check for the Democrats: A recent Rasmussen poll found that 66% of likely voters feel they are overtaxed. A poll by the liberal Democracy Corps found that voters want spending cuts over tax hikes by a whopping margin of 71%-to-18%.

Taxes and spending are all about one thing – Big Government. The more government spends, the bigger it gets. The bigger government gets, the more resources it demands. And even as Obama was signing ObamaCare into law, a Rasmussen poll found that 63% of adults favored smaller government with fewer services, while just 25% supported bigger government with higher taxes.

The issues that motivate the Tea Party movement are taxes, spending and the size and scope of government. Yet polling finds that 71% of voters want spending cuts, 66% feel taxes are too high and 63% want smaller government. The Tea Party and conservative values of liberty and limited government are not a "fringe movement." In 201 days, CWF will do everything we can to teach Obama’s socialist congressional allies that lesson.
Gary Bauer is is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families. He submitted this article in an email to the ARRA News Service Editor. Bauer was a former Republican presidential candidate and served as President Ronald Reagan’s domestic policy adviser.

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