"If Republicans vote to raise taxes, hell hath no fury like a taxpayer scorned," conservative commentator and pollster Frank Luntz told several hundred delegates attending a Saturday luncheon. "Don't you dare vote for those taxes."Well, no one likes to be scorned. Taxpayers and voters (not always identical groups) do not like being scorned, and if they think they are being ignored, they can lash out.
Nevertheless, the people have always been willing to have their representatives raise taxes if, by so doing, they get a piece of the pie too. It's not axiomatic that the people will always resist taxes.
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