The reason Republicans have the upper hand on the tax cut issue

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is because it is easy to cut taxes even for the top 2% of income earners.


Allowing people to keep their money is easy politically. Raising taxes on the rich is not as easy as some people might think.

It's not that people believe it's more important for the rich to have their tax cut as opposed to funding essential government programs, they just don't really believe government services will be cut even if the rich get a tax cut.


The Democrats should just reform the tax code like they did in 1986 and take that issue away from the Republicans.