You lost me there. I cannot advocate raising taxes for anybody, even if those same animals vote for Democrat politicians to confiscate more from me. ...On the other hand, screw them. Yeah, raise the "gimme gimme" crowd's taxes. Why not?
I like broader tax bases where everybody pays the tax at a *lower* rate. In the case of CA sales tax, the underachievers benefit much more than the high achievers when groceries and rents are excluded from the sales tax, because they spend a much larger portion of their income on those items. Taxation should be indiscriminate, not targeting specific items or persons. Justice is supposed to be blind, right ? Otherwise it is just too easy for politicians to carve out groups of voters that they “protect” from the tax and thereby buy their votes. Taxes that are not applied evenly breed corruption.
I found it sadly comical that the Bush tax rate extensions were characterized as the “GOP holding the middle class hostage to benefit millionaires”. I see it more as the “Dems wanting to perform human sacrifices to the tax monster to protect the low achievers”.