“An inconvenient tax truth: We've had plenty of tax cuts,” Susan Schmickle, Minnpost

Schmickle says the thermometer on tax rhetoric is not going to go down any time soon, because it’s an election year, not because most of us pay taxes.

The Tax Foundation, a conservative leaning think-tank, reports that fewer and fewer of us even pay taxes. If this is true than why is the rhetoric reaching a boiling point? Evidently, during election cycles “tax rhetoric”reaches a highly volatile level.

It's too bad because “Rhetoric” has the effect of replacing facts, despite the growing number of non-payers as evidenced by a Tax Foundation graph, despite the fact that most of us got a tax cut, and despite the fact 98% of Minnesota’s working families received various tax breaks all last year, (2009).

Evidently, contrary to the plethora of tax cuts enacted since Obama took office, the "tax rhetoric” still confuses some Minnesotans.

Everyone should read Schmickle’s article and maybe, just maybe if you’re confused about the “raging debate over Obama’s desire to end the Bush-era tax cuts when they expire next year,” the best thing to do is tell your elected officials to make their positions more clear, rather than artificially inflate the degree of tax angst amongst the greater number of us, who don't even pay taxes.

With permission from Susan Schmickle