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AESOP ON THE DEMOCRATS

The Aesop fable with the dog who is carrying a bone and sees his reflection in the water is a good parallel of Middle Class voters and Democrats. You'll remember that the dog dropped his own bone in the water because he wanted to have the bone in the reflection. The end result was that he got no bone at all. The Democrats are playing the part of the reflection in recent political campaigns and we're the dog.

Any Republican tax cut they argue benefits the wealthy too much. Implied within that argument is the notion that people are better off foregoing their own tax cut because others will be receiving more money than them. Letting the government keep their money via higher tax rates means more money will be kept from wealthy people and the implied result is a government than can spend more of rich people's money on them.

What's never said by Democrats is that people who have already been removed from the tax rolls are the only ones that benefit from high taxes. Anything they get from the government is gravy. And, of course, politicians benefit from high taxes because then they can hand out special tax breaks to their friends via friendly deductions. They don't get to pick and choose special favors when tax rates are low across the board.

The rest of us pay the bills. Oh, of course, Democrats favor a middle class tax cut in theory. Bill Clinton went on and on about a middle class tax cut during the 1992 campaign and yet he never got around to proposing one in eight years in Washington. Bait and switch is illegal at Best Buy. but common in Washington.

I've heard Kerry promise a middle class tax cut in this campaign too. It's a great trick especially from a guy who spent 20 years in the Seante voting against tax breaks no matter how modest.

Don't forget that you're a taxpaying dog and Kerry is your beautiful reflection. Walk on home dog and be happy with what you get to keep. Kerry is standing by waiting for you to open your mouth.