So how is the Democratic Party’s class warfare strategy going? Rasmussen knows:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 58% of American Adults now support an across-the-board income tax percentage. Support for a simplified system like this has been growing from 44% in April 2009 to 55% this time last year. Thirty-one percent (31%) oppose a system where everyone pays the same percentage in taxes. Eleven percent (11%) are undecided.

No doubt Debbie Wasserman Schultz will announce that this shows Americans clearly favor taxing the rich more, while the President will, two days later, announce he has always supported a flat tax strategy but the Republicans have consistently opposed him on this.

Of course, the flat tax system would utterly gut many of the Democrats’s core principles by making more Americans tax payers, and by shutting down the tired and debunked “evil-rich-get-all-the-breaks” argument. And what happens when the middle class wake up knowing what their taxes will be that year, and therefore can afford to invest and spend wisely? And, worse, what happens when people currently skating by without paying taxes suddenly have skin in the game?

Oh dear.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.