Back in the 90s, I had an argument with my father about taxes. My dad is pretty much a consistent Republican voter, and at the time he was vociferously displeased with President Clinton. In the wake of Clinton’s tax cuts to the middle class, my dad was railing about how that was a lie, that, in fact, taxes had gone up.
“I got a tax cut,” I said.
He stopped. “Huh?”
“I said ‘I got a tax cut.’ My taxes went down.”
He had a few moments of complete cognitive dissonance. I confess I do not track politics and policy on a daily basis, and often things slip past me that I do not catch, but the fact of the matter was, at that time, my federal taxes went down.…