Why can't Democrats run on Republican intransigence on taxes?

[kentuck]

Don't most of the polls show that the majority want millionaires and billionaires to pay more in taxes?

Instead, they would cut Social Security and Medicare which is a very unpopular idea with the voters?

Isn't this a winning issue for Democrats?

Why do they hesitate to use it?

[lob1]

1. When 80% of the public want something, and congress

can't pass a bill to get it, that just proves we don't live in a democracy. We're getting bullshit from both sides.

[mitchtv]

2. we'rrre scaarred

Besides that takes balls and or backbone

[nykym]

3. Why would a group of

Millionaires, yes your congress critters increase their own taxes? Or even support legislation that favors the little guy more than themselves?

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. Ask 10 people -- 11 of them will say "Both sides do it".

And a lot of otherwise helpful folks -- I'm looking at you, Jon Stewart -- push this tack.

[msongs]

5. because it might obama unhappy to stand up to his republican friends lol nt