In four words, that’s the Bush Administration’s tax agenda. How else can you explain the urgency behind cutting taxes on capital gains (”earned” through a combination of informed choices and dumb luck), dividends (basically a semi-annual gift to stockholders), and estates (or as many on the left are now calling “Paris Hilton taxes”¹)? Meanwhile, the two most regressive forms of taxation (payroll and income taxes) which are the ones you pay for all those hours you spend at your shitty job have barely changed for those who really need tax cuts. They may pretend to care about working people, but the actions of the Republican party show that they’re more interested in helping multi-millionaires than people living below the poverty level.

It’s been said before, but with April 15th just two days away, it needs to be repeated over and over again. If the Republican party has their way², the only taxes that you’ll be paying will be the ones on the money you broke your back earning. If this makes you as sick as it makes me, alert the media. Write a letter to every newspaper, TV station, and member of the House and senate that you can. Let them know that this unconscionable disregard for the needs of working Americans is an elitism worse than anything those “Hollywood leftists” could dish out.

^{1: As Kevin points out, “Democrats have consistently offered up pretty extreme counterproposals, including Earl Pomeroy’s latest gambit, which would provide a $7 million (!) exemption for couples and thus constrain the estate tax to the tippy top .3% of the population…The only thing being taxed is estates of robber baron size; the only people being taxed are the pampered children of the robber barons; and the cost of repeal is on the order of $1 trillion per decade.” In other words, the Republicans would rather save the Paris Hiltons of the world than the working poor.}

2: Or should that be “when the Republican party has their way”?