But you weren't. You were down on the field very much in that game. And if those proposals ever become law, you'll find you're on the losing team. Indexing is an historic reform that'll put an end to bracket creep. The unfair thing about our present income tax system is that it's based on the number of dollars you earn, not their value.
Indexing puts an end to the injustice of bracket creep.
And they won't, if we don't let them. It's not right for them to overtax you just so they can spend more. Their budget would cancel virtually all the savings we've made in the last 2 years. It would turn back the clock to the high inflation, high interest rate nightmare of 1980 by giving a green light to at least 10 brand new government spending programs. It would wipe out our initiatives to reduce food stamp waste, despite documented evidence that food stamp rip-off artists plunder the system and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.