President Obama understands that to govern well one needs a vision and principles and a willingness to accept 80% as a win. However, on tax policy, his team is, frankly and scarily, clueless. Worse they so little understand taxes that they are on the verge of hurting the strongest Democratic states to spare the Republican ones. Where is our Democratic Grover Norquist?
If you live in a Demoratic state, you are usually in a community with progressive values paid for with an income tax and education paid for by property taxes. Your home is likely within 100 miles of a city, increasing your home value and its mortgage. Grover Norquist and the Republicans understand this; the Democrats are apparently bewildered.
We all have to wise up and battle in this tax policy arena just like in every other political arena.