60% of Americans say the rich aren't pulling their weight

Although Bush has spent most of his time in recent months talking about our success in Iraq-- to no avail-- he doesn't have much of anything left to sell the public on. So his second favorite talking point is tax cuts. No matter what economic news emerges, if it isn't bad news it's all thanks to his tax cuts. And how they have to be made permanent, naturally.

Democrats haven't had much success in getting people to acknowledge that they are tilted heavily in favor of the super-rich. Or that corporations are finding more and more ways to dodge tax payments even as they're making higher profits and receiving ever more in government subsidies.

But it could be a good thing to talk up in this fall's elections. An Ipsos poll finds that, as with all the other policies of the neo-fascists, the public isn't on board:

More than half in the poll, 58 percent, said middle-income families pay too much income tax. People were almost as likely, 54 percent, to say that about low-income families.

Six in 10 said high-income families were paying too little in taxes. Two decades ago, almost eight in 10 said high-income families were paying too little.

UPDATE: I just spotted this post from Daily Kos, which sez that Bush used today's radio address to push his tax cuts. The author also points out the various ways in which Bush's voodoo economics come entirely at the expense of the working class-- and future generations. As well as Bill Clinton's words from last September:

I would repeal the tax cuts for upper-income people. I myself have gotten 4 tax cuts while young Americans have gone off to risk their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, while we've had this massive natural disaster. We've run up this huge deficit. How are we covering this money? We are borrowing the money from China, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia to pay for the suffering of our people in the Gulf area, to pay for the Iraq War, and to cover my tax cuts -- and we are expecting our children to pay the bill. We've made a decision to lower the living standards of our children and grandchildren and to soak other people around the world who don't have the money we do, by and large, to cover our self-indulgence.

It's a real shame that we never had the chance to see Clinton debate Dubya. It would have been a verbal massacre.