The End of Tax Cut Politics

[Gordon Fitch]

Nathan Newman:
> ... 
> By playing the late phase-in game to make the tax cuts look more acceptable,
> the GOPers may have outsmarted themselves.  By next year, progressives can
> just pocket the upfront tax breaks for moderate income families, then treat
> each subsequent year's tax phase-in for the rich as a new issue to
> politically club the rightwing during budget fights.
> ...

If the rich have more power than the poor, which they do, then
they can remove the wealth they want from the poor by a variety
of means, not just taxes -- through, for instance, profits,
interest, fees, insurance rates, rents, land speculation,
manipulation of securities, and so on.  The politics of tax
cuts, pro and con, are a kind of mummery whose function is to
obscure the actual facts of domination and exploitation.