They affect to be scandalized by President Bush's proposal to cut tax rates so that each taxpayer will get tax relief roughly in proportion to his tax burden. Already about half of all Americans pay no income tax. More and more of the federal government's revenue comes from fewer and fewer taxpayers. Democrats like this distortion and want to make it worse. In any debate over tax policy their principal goal will always be to make the tax code as progressive as possible.
Progressive taxation is a demagogue's delight.
Governments can't bribe people with their own money. Everybody loves getting something for nothing. Clinton was a master of this game. He made millions of Americans believe that the federal government would help them with somebody else's money. This is income redistribution or, in other words, theft.