Why I Love Taxes -- And Most Americans Do, Too

By Sally Kohn, Movement Vision Lab
Posted on October 30, 2008, Printed on October 30, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/104546/

Over the last 40 decades, conservatives have launched a concerted attack on taxes with such success that now candidates of both parties reliably compete with each other to prove who is more anti-tax. When John McCain and Sarah Palin attack taxes, that's one thing. But when Barack Obama starts doing it, we have a big problem.

Conventional wisdom has it that Americans hate taxes. But the conventional wisdom is wrong.