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Donate   • Do Partisan Politics Spell Tax Hikes?      One of the
most pressing pieces of legislation that the lame duck Congress
must deal with is the impending expiration of the 2001 and 2003
tax relief.      Led by President Obama, the Democrats have long
argued for extending the tax relief for families making less
than $250,000 a year while raising taxes on those families and
small businesses that earn above that arbitrary threshold.
Despite election results that clearly show that Americans do not
want tax hikes, even if they are just on “the rich,” Democrats
have devised a new strategy to do just that.      Their new
plan, according to Politico, is to raise the threshold of what
is “rich” from $250,000 of annual income for a family to
$500,000 or $1 million. The second stage of the plan is to
permanently separate the middle-income tax cuts from the tax
cuts for the rich. They would do this by permanently extending
the tax cuts for middle-inc