Raising taxes vs. lowering taxes

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

let's say you were running a country and you thought the current tax rate was just fine. But then for some reason you have to change it and you have to either raise them by 10% or lower them by 10%, you just can't keep it the way it is. what would you do?

I'd raise them.

[A18]

Lower.

[Jake]

Lower

[Frodo]

cutting taxes cannot be a panacea for every ill, especially when you are in the middle of a war, and what better source to draw it from than those who can best afford to pay it?  i say raise it, both to fund the war on terror (it is your patriotic duty, after all), and to reduce the budget deficit.

there is a certain point when cutting taxes becomes less of an economic method and more of a knee-jerk response with no rationale.  those who insist on cutting taxes ad infinitum are irresponsible.     

[Gabu]

Not having any more information, lower; there are a lot more cases where lower taxes are helpful than where higher taxes are helpful.

[A18]

Everyone should pay the exact same rate on every luxury they enjoy within the boundaries of the United States. Anything else is a socialist scheme. When government wants to raise taxes, it shouldn't be able to just raise them on 10% of the electorate. It should be flat and across the board, so that the government is accountable.

Anyone who wants to pay a lower rate should have to surrender his/her vote.

[David S]

First choice eliminate
2nd choice lower