The truth about taxes.

The Republicans are telling us that the Democrats will raise taxes. But they aren't telling us the whole story. Yes, Barack Obama has proposed raising taxes -- on the 5 percent of the richest Americans. So that he can lower the taxes on the other 95 percent. I can support that. It's time that we soaked the filty rich. They haven't been paying their fair share of taxes. I mean the billionaires and multi-millionaires and the corporations with ungodly annual profits. And the Republicans aren't telling us that they're the ones supporting the senseless war in Iraq -- a war costing tens of thousands of lives, and in the end, trillions of dollars. Little wonder that America is operating with the biggest deficit in history. Little wonder that we have to raise taxes on the obscenely rich. That's a lot better than soaking the middle class to pay the bills. --Jim Broede