It's better to take from people that have money then people that don't. If you wan't a better education department, or a a better police department you have to raise taxes. America is not an amazinlgy rich country nor is it poor, it's in between. If he targets the middle-class then he can un-sure that he gets the majority of his country. I have dealt with a similar problem when I ran for class president, it may sound 'corny'. The kids wanted the vending machine prices to be lower, instead of 1.25 they wanted 1.00. I said we could lower prices by having a food drive, it worked. I raised enough money to keep the vending machines 1.00 for the whole school year. This shows you that sometimes you have to I, shouldn't say take but borrow money from higher organziatons to help out the lower organizations, that need help. In a ecomnic system such as ours that is highly dependent on money, there is no other alternative to raising taxes. Then again there's a department that needs a tort reform too.