I happen to agree with your point that increasing taxes decreases revenue, at least it does at the levels used today.
But I've pretty much come to the opinion that the income tax is the means by which the federal goverment became so powerful and broke the bonds by which the Constitution formerly bound it, so I'd almost like to see the tax abolished.
I do think we're moving steadily leftwards, with pockets of resestance like FR. I'm not optomistic that it can be reversed, but who knows?
Katrina came almost over us, but as a minimal cat 1, she wasn't much problem. Lots of branches down, lots of trees in the neighborhood down, a few roads blocked. Neighborhood was out of electricity for the better part of a week. Still, no big deal.
Rita scared us more, I actually put up some shutters, but she turned out to be a non event for us, thankfully. I heard that Key Largo got more breeze from Katrina than Rita, but had some flooding on the ocean side from Rita, since she passed south.
I think that conclusion would be inevitable depending on how much time someone spends in right leaning media. When I tune into he left, they’re generally under a shared belief that we’re increasingly manipulated by neocon and corporate lies with Bush rapidly eroding the last 40 years of social “advances”.
My head hurts…