Liberals admit the Democratic Party is out of ideas

Leonhardt is right about polls showing that Americans believe the current tax system favors the wealthy. And Americans are right: it does.

But that doesn’t mean conservatives should raise tax rates on anybody. Instead, conservatives could eliminate or reduce a slew of tax expenditures that primarily benefit wealthy Americans, and then use that revenue to give every working American a raise by cutting the payroll tax.

Such a move would not only immediately put more cash into every working American’s paycheck, but it would also create thousands of new jobs by lowering the cost of employment.