How Republicans Control the Terminology

You have to give the Republicans credit. They have changed the terminology of politics. The importance of this cannot be understated. Just look at the previous post I just wrote.

Of the three easy tax proposals that I hope the President holds firm to all of them need a clarification from the terminology most often used today, terminology that Republicans introduced and have succeeded in making prevalent.

Stating that small businesses that make over 200 K will be punished with the revoking of the Bush tax cuts. The repeal of the Bush tax cuts would affect taxable income over 200,000. With the expanse of write offs for small businesses over 90 percent do not meet this taxable income level. Even then the increase is only on the amount over 200 K.

There is no such thing as a death tax. There is an estate tax. It has always been called this prior to Republican marketing strategies.

Lastly the carried interest or capital gains rates allowing the Romney's and Buffet's of the world to pay a lower tax rate than you or I. Democrats just need to say they want the income of the rich man to be taxed at the same rate as the income of the working man and this issue would be easily understandable.

It is as if the right hires Mad Men's Don Draper and the left hires Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum for their media consultants.