amendment. so right there in the press release for the tax hike prevention act of 2012, it says there are tax hikes that are not being prevented by the taact. if you have been paying attention to this or to politics in general in the last 20 years, you know one thing for sure. democrats want to raise your taxes and republicans want to cut them. democrats, tax hikers. republicans, tax cutters. democrats, taxes up. republicans, taxes down. so right, that's what we know, right? wrong. republicans do want to cut taxes on rich people. that much is fully true, and democrats want to raise taxes on rich people. that is at least mostly true, and i say mostly for reasons i'll explain in a moment. but when we're talking about poor people, the positions reverse. democrats want to cut taxes on poor people. and republicans at the moment