Al Melvin: “Taxes are like death”

by David Safier
I heard Cap'n Al Melvin say this on NPR this morning:

You gotta love these Republicans. Our budget cuts won't have women and children dying in the streets, they assure us, but taxes are like death. Cuts in social services that harm the most vulnerable among us, and cuts in education that limit children's futures? We shouldn't blow things like that all out of proportion. But increased taxes? They're like death! Death, I tell you!

To be fair, Melvin's point is, there's no such thing as a temporary tax. Once you enact a tax, it's there forever. I guess he's saying the Reagan tax cuts never happened, or the Bush tax cuts. Or the 30% decrease in Arizona income tax rates over the past decade or so.