Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
This is why I think the tax arguaments are generally political red herrings. I've been paying taxes for several decades now under many different adminsitrations and congresses and tax codes. Every election there is a huge argument over who is going to raise taxes and who is going to lower taxes as if it is the most important thing in the world. My experience has been it matters very little to me and how I live my life. We've had these hard fought increases and decreases during my working career, and honestly it made so little difference in my paycheck, that I didn't even notice it.

The example above shows how tiny the difference would be under the Obama plan from the current plan. The differrence betwenn Obama's plan and McCain's plan is even smaller. For most people, it won't mean a thing.
The only thing I care about in regards to taxes is when concerning business. Business is the only place where numbers are typically big enough where a 2-3% tax decrease could be a significant amount that might result in cheaper products, some new jobs or maybe a few extra benefits.

As long as we stay somewhat close to our current tax brackets (for most working class americans) then I don't see a need to lower taxes among the majority of the working class.