On Straw Men

Sean Parr has an excellent point this morning at American Thinker. The article can be found here.

Why does the left mischaracterize the Tea Party's goals? Why do they insist that the Tea Party wants their taxes lowered, and then counter that under Obama's tax plan, they should be happy?

Well, because they need to ignore the real demands. The real demands are for SCRAPPING our currently unfair, progressive, penalizing, economy killing TAX CODE.

Although I don't consider myself a Tea Partier per se, I agree that the tax CODE is the problem - not the tax rates. This current code is so convoluted and complex that it makes it virtually impossible to decipher and comply with it - especially if you own a business. It robs from the rich and gives to the poor - Robin Hood in legalese. Our founders would be outraged.

The whole Dem machine is geared to wealth redistribution and "social justice". Scrapping the tax code would eliminate that. Or, put more simply, a fair tax would be American in the best sense of the word, while the current code is socialist and un-American. No wonder the dems want to divert attention.