On Tax Day, People Start to Realize They Got Screwed Under Bush

A new poll from AP shows that "By almost a 2-1 margin, Americans prefer balancing the nation's budget to cutting taxes even though many believe their overall tax burden has risen despite tax cuts over the past three years...About six in 10, 61 percent, chose balancing the budget while 36 percent chose tax cuts when they were asked which was more important...Half in the poll, 49 percent, said their overall tax burden — including federal, state and local taxes — had gone up over the past three years. That's almost four times the 13 percent in the poll who said their overall taxes had gone down."

The reason for this? Most people got almost nothing from any of the Bush tax cuts, while their state/local taxes/fees went up, their services were slashed, and their wages stagnated. Translation: higher taxes, worse services, less money coming in, all while the White House says we need to cut overtime pay and outsource U.S. jobs.

Translation: middle class gets screwed to pad the wallet of George Bush, Dick Cheney and their fat cat friends.