Representative John Larson (D-CT) was on CNN this morning pushing a “war tax.” We’ve seen several Democrats propose various tax increases lately to pay for a surge in troops for Afghanistan. Earlier we covered Senator Carl Levin’s (D-MI) proposal to increase the income tax on “folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000” a year.
Without getting into the merits of any one proposal over another, doesn’t it strike you as odd that Larson would propose a tax increase that won't go into effect until December 2010 to pay for a troop surge that will start in December 2009?
Does this strike anyone else as a politically expedient tax hike?
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