Left or right?Eugene Volokh asks: Criticizing people for raising taxes on the middle class is an attack "from the left"? Not a ridiculous position, I suppose, but far from an obvious one. "Left" and "right" do have some utility as labels, but they don't seem to make much sense here.This was in response to this passage from the LA Times: Yet Dean is as much target as model. Kerry recently attacked him from the left, complaining that Dean's call for repealing all of Bush's 2001 tax cut (which Dean wants to apply to a new drive to cover those without health insurance) would raise taxes on the middle class as well as the rich.Saying that criticism for raising taxes on the middle class is an attack "from the left" makes sense if one thinks that conservatives only want to lower taxes for the rich, and raise taxes on the poor. After all, those evil Republicans wouldn't want poor people like me to get a tax cut! |
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