Michael Kinsley on the G.O.P. assertion that John Kerry has voted "350 times" to raise taxes. I wish I could find an online source to link to an article Kinsley did back when the previous Bush was running against Michael Dukakis. That Bush had a similar list of supposed tax increases endorsed by Dukakis and Kinsley did a great job of dissecting it as illusory…for example, counting an increase in the gasoline tax as several separate tax increases because it applied to Unleaded, Super Unleaded, Diesel, etc.
But the big thing that's always wrong with these lists is that they take the position that a tax increase is a tax increase, regardless of amounts. If one elected official votes for five 1% increases and another votes for one 10% increase, the former is pilloried for championing five times as many tax increases as the latter. If you were for lower taxes, which of those two guys should you support?