The local paper likes to disparage changes in tax policies because it likes the idea of ever-increasing taxes. After all, how can you fund all of those special interest programs without the money taken from the working people of America?! In an editorial on February 8th, 1996, the paper lied about what candidate Forbes' flat-rate tax plan would mean to those very working Americans. After stating that candidate Dole's attacks on the Forbes plan "have some merit", they go on to argue that it's "even worse":

At a level higher than literal reality, the Dole charge has some merit. Specifically, if anybody ever comes up with a flat-tax plan that raises as much revenue as the current system, then, obviously, a lot of middle-income people will pay more.

Flat-rate tax plans can and do increase revenues, and not at the expense of the middle class

Note how the paper uses "flat-tax" instead of "flat-rate tax". In a bit of tautology, they argue that a tax flat in revenues doesn't increase revenues! Of course, the reality is that lower rates can and do increase revenues. Obviously the writers have never shopped at Wal-Mart, where lower prices bring more revenues (through higher volume and more efficient operations). In the same way, previous rate reductions have led to more revenues, most recently in the Reagan tax rate reductions. And as proven by those same tax changes, the increased volume comes not from the middle class, but from the rich. So why does the paper insist that the middle class will "pay more"? Because class-wafrare is the tactic liberals always use when they want to keep your taxes higher. Lying about taxes is part and parcel of class warfare.

The paper continues with the usual lies tax cuts and deficits and the Reagan Expansion. I guess they still haven't read the truth about the 1980s. But then even if they did read it, I doubt they would admit the error of their ways.

They can continue to spout untruths, but I refuse to let their lies go unchallenged.

See also the AllPolitics website run by CNN and Time which also exposes this kind of lie about the Forbes plan!

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