Tax the poor

Now here's a tax idea I can get on board with:

...I'll add another improbable idea for Democrats: It is time to begin taxing –- if only by a few dollars -- the millions of lower earners who pay no tax or get money back. This largely symbolic step would allow citizens to reestablish their connection with the federal government.

Obama has a far better chance of pulling this off than any Republican would. He might package such a tax into a larger work program of community service.

As I've said before we really need to consider raising income taxes on people in lower tax brackets to make sure they actually pay something. Just as only Nixon could have gone to China, can Obama be the one who pulls such a move? I have my doubts given his endless talk about 95 percent of us getting a cut, but then again Bill Clinton talked about a middle class tax on the campaign trail and ended up doing the opposite.