Democrats Want You To Pay More Taxes, While They Evade Them

Yesterday, the House Ethics committee investigating New York Rep. Charles Rangel, a Democrat and head of the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes new tax law, laid out its case against Rangel and his evasion of taxes.

When Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was nominated for this post by President Obama last year, it was disclosed that he had failed to pay tens of thousands in income taxes.

Former Democratic senate leader Tom Daschle, who was nominated to be head of the Department of Health, had to remove his name from consideration when it was disclosed that he owed over $100,000 in taxes.

The excuses of all three were pretty lame. And, I don't suggest that these issues only involve Democrats. However, Democrats want to let the Bush tax cuts expire, at least for those earning over $200,000 annually. They want the capital gains tax rate and dividends tax rate to go back up, and they want the estate, or death tax, to be revived. All because they have been spending money in an out of control fashion and have run up a national debt that they used to scold George W. Bush for.

Do the Democrats have any credibility at all anymore?