I agree with you 100%. Why make the Republicans look like lackeys of the rich by saying that people earning multi-millions a year shouldn’t have to pay as high a tax rate as their secretaries who are earning 90k? Of course that strikes a majority of people as unfair. Why is it important to waste political capital defending it?
It makes sense to me because the amount at issue is so small. Passing the law -- as long as it is accompanied by a very strongly worded statement against the President using words like embarassment, immature, dishonest, caring only about reelection not the country", etc., -- would emphasize how exactly how petty and small the President really is. It would point how how unserious he is about tackling the deficit, and show that he needs to be replaced.
Instead, we go to the mat and spend political capital on people making more than a million paying a lower rate than people making $100k. Sheer stupidity on our part because that's not even a principle worth defending.
It makes sense to me because the amount at issue is so small. Passing the law -- as long as it is accompanied by a very strongly worded statement against the President using words like embarassment, immature, dishonest, caring only about reelection not the country", etc., -- would emphasize how exactly how petty and small the President really is. It would point how how unserious he is about tackling the deficit, and show that he needs to be replaced.
Instead, we go to the mat and spend political capital on people making more than a million paying a lower rate than people making $100k. Sheer stupidity on our part because that's not even a principle worth defending.