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Profit [Updated]   President Obama today is demanding that
Congress extend the Bush tax cuts on income under $250,000 for
another year. This is being reported as a gambit to “change the
subject to the issue of tax fairness.” (See the nearly identical
wording in reports by the Associated Press and the New York
Times.) Obama’s demand is juxtaposed against the backdrop of a
Versailles-like gathering of Mitt Romney donors in the Hamptons,
and a coordinated Democratic attack on Romney’s Swiss bank
accounts and offshore tax havens, lending the debate a sharp
class-warfare flavor.  The Republican outlook on this is that
they stand for a rising tide and general growth for all while
Democrats mindlessly loot the rich. “I just think if you're
lower income — one, you're not as educated, two, they don't
understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems
work, they don't understand t