The issue is not how much the Democrat candidates "sugest" they will raise taxes during the campaign. What, from past performance, can we expect from any of the whole Washington crowd. And congress and presidents don't care about the state of the economy. They can and will vote themselves raises no matter what. And they have deformed the electoral process to make it incredibly difficult to remove any of them. Right now they are putting on a show to get you to vote for them. There is little that they haven't promised. But what is their track record on keeping promises? Give me an even money bet on any one promise being kept within four years and I could become a billionaire betting against.

Well, whoever the Dem nominee is, it appears they will be running well to the left of any major party candidate in US history, and peddling big government (on a massive scale) as the solution for every problem.

By trying to outbid Obama over who will raise taxes higher and create more colossal new entitlement programs, the Dems seem to be taking a pretty big risk with an election that a more moderate candidate (e.g. Bill Clinton in his 1992 guise as a centrist, DLC guy) would easily win for them.

I live in Pennsylvania and I can guarentee that Democrats do not want the change out of your pocket. After years of leadership from Norman Hsu's best friend and Ron Burkle's fellow fundraiser all we have left is change! We will sure need that to pay off the Bonds issued lately with no dedicated income source to repay the principle let alone the interest!

Baloney! Republicans masquerade as fiscal conservatives, but history has shown *over and over* again that the repubs just want to spend and NOT tax. The only thing worse than a tax and spend democrat is a DON'T tax and spend, spend, spend republican.

Most of the national debt is REPUBLICAN IN ORIGIN! This old tax line by Rudy is so tired and verges on a lie. I am sick of the diversions like this the repubs keep throwing out, this is total mythology.

When repubs bemoan government spending it is DOMESTIC spending they hate, like Medicare, Social Security, school lunch, day care etc. They are perfectly happy to push wars that make them, and their rich friends even richer at the expense of medicine for children.

Giuliani has been exposed for the corrupt, cold-blooded disaster-capitalist he is. His campaign is already dead--he just doesn't want to admit it. Big neocon money will keep pushing him in your face, but only massive election fraud can make this man President.

That's a good one. Imagine Obama on a street corner wanting "change"!
But seriously, the democrats are just the collection agents for the huge spending and debt our own republicans ran up while lying to us that they cut taxes. Is it a tax cut when inflation pushes us into higher tax brackets, forces us to pay tax on phantom capital gains and just plain steals the value of our savings? The Iraq war has pushed up oil so we are filling the pockets of the Saudis and keeping Iran afloat. The drug war assures high heroin profits for the Taliban and Al Queda in Afganistan while giving us burglaries, murder, robberies on our own streets. I wonder if the real terrorists are running our government. These policies ensure that we stay scared and we agree to give them even more money and power to "protect" us. Sounds like a Mafia scam to me. Giuliani, Romney and McCain seems to be the biggest demagogues and Huckabee is a master at avoiding questions.