GOP Should Drop Norquist and Follow Maher

From Lee Cary at the American Thinker Blog:

Egberto Willies, commenter in the Daily Kos piece where Maher is quoted, wrote, "Republicans have always loved cutting taxes on both the backs of the working middle class and at the expense of exploding budget deficits to appease their plutocratic masters."

The Republicans should link Maher's equation - "cut spending AND raise taxes" - with Willies' observation that Republicans love to pile the tax burden on the "working middle class" and take the initiative.

Here are three suggested changes in the federal tax code that, if pushed by the GOP, would demonstrate an enhanced sensitivity to assuring fairer federal taxation. None involve new taxes - just the elimination of tax deduction loopholes that favor the rich.

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1. Remove state income taxes as a deductable item from the federal tax code for those making over $500,000.

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2. Remove city income taxes as a deductable expense from the federal tax code for those making over $200,000.

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3. Remove real estate taxes as a deductible item for all those paying over $15,000 in property taxes.

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None of these suggestions for federal revenue enhancement represent new taxes. They merely eliminate tax loopholes that favor the rich and lighten the heavy weight of taxation now resting on the shoulders of the "working middle class."

As a final suggestion to fulfill the "raise taxes" half of Maher's equation of "cutting spending AND raising taxes," Republicans should note the top 20 donor groups, by organizational affiliation, to Barack Obama's 2012 campaign.

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Academics, lawyers and federal government employees dominate the list.

.............. Federal employees should be prohibited from contributing.

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Also, contributions from employees at universities that receive millions in federal research grants should be strictly limited.

I love this idea!!!! It can be sold as taxing the rich, who happen to be in blue states. This might actually force the blue states to be responsible with their tax plans, since the Feds will not longer be subsidizing them.

Like Alinsky said, make the live by their own rules.