Is tax cuts for people making over $200k a huge issue in WV?
It has become a symbolic issue, and the GOP claim that you would kill the job creators (small business subchapter S types who have a successful business is the GOP leitmotif here) with a 4.6% increase in the marginal rate, seems to be selling. It has the Dems in marginal seats bailing from the idea of having a vote on this issue. They don't want such a vote prior to the election, so there will be no such vote. In fact the session coming up will last about 10 days, and nothing will happen, and everyone will then go home to campaign. The legislative season is over.
It doesn't matter. The Dems don't want this debate. The micro story in tough times about how it will slow down hiring is just something the Dems don't want to be a major topic in this election. It is all about the marginal seats.
Come on Torie, think for a second. The poll results show that this issue is almost purely class based. Do you that West Virginians of all people would buy into fairly advanced arguments involving Macroeconomics over their hatred for "rich elites"? If that argument works in WV it could work anywhere.
