Presidential hopeful John Edwards is running on a campaign of raising taxes. Here is how he is selling it:

Sen. John Edwards, campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president, said Monday his targeted tax-cut proposal would create 5 million new jobs in his first two years in office and end the "two Americas" that President Bush has created.

"One America does the work, while another America reaps the reward," Edwards said in a speech detailing his efforts to bolster quality of life for middle-class Americans. "One America pays the taxes, while another America gets the tax breaks."

Geez, Edwards sounds like he could be campaigning for a flat tax. Not that you really need to be told, but he's not talking about reducing the 96% share that the top half of wage earners pay. Edwards wants to raise their taxes and give some of the money to the working poor.

The top 50% obviously doesn't do any work. They reap financial reward through deceit and trickeration, while the bottom 50% works their butt off to come up with their 4% of the tax burden. Edwards wants to shift more people from the bottom 50% of wage earners off of the tax rolls completely, and he's willing to do it in exchange for your vote.

Perhaps voters should send him a letter letting him know for how much they are willing to sell their vote. I've already gone on record as saying that the price of my vote is enaction of the Earned Income Gun Credit.