Tax Day

I very much like the suggestion of moving Tax Day closer to Election Day. However, I can see that incentives for politicians would blunt the effectiveness of such a move.

It was no secret that candidate Obama was dissembling madly when he claimed 95% of Americans would get a tax break. The need for the lie is the lack of appetite for higher taxes. Thus Congress has made no moves to actively increase taxes. Instead, they plan to allow taxes to increase when Bush's tax cuts expire.

Democrats were clever enough to pass tax cuts only if they expired after a national election. Thus, they will be given three years to obfuscate their role in increased taxes. And Republicans were idiotic enough to allow such obvious ploys.

Second, Democrats are disguising more and more of their taxes. The proposed increases in taxes on soda, beer, cell phones and all sorts of other things will be felt widely. But because the amount of each tax will be relatively insignificant tax payers are much less likely to vote their anger about increased taxes. This means that Democrats are more likely to get away continually increasing taxes and assuming more authority to themselves.

So, taxes are likely to increase. But not income taxes -- aside from allowing Bush's tax cuts to expire. So moving tax day wouldn't make as much difference as it should.