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From a recent article in Human Events.

"Tax Hike: Just before the Easter recess, the House voted on the Democratic budget for 2008, which anticipates a $400-billion tax increase over the next five years. Members who voted in favor of the budget blueprint were effectively playing along with the plans of the Democratic House leadership to raise taxes by letting the Bush tax cuts expire in 2011. Of the 10 moderate freshmen listed in the accompanying chart, five voted for the tax increase, while four voted against it and one was absent. The budget phases out cuts on individual income tax rates signed by President Bush in 2001, resets the so-called "Death Tax" and hikes rates on capital gains and dividends.

The Democratic budget, with its $400-billion tax increase, passed narrowly, 216 to 210, with the help of such moderates as Nancy Boyda (D.-Kan.), Jason Altmire (D.-Pa.), Chris Carney (D.-Pa.), Charlie Wilson (D.-Ohio), and Gabrielle Giffords (D.-Ariz.). Neither they nor any of the House Democrats supported the conservative substitute budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.), which curtailed entitlement spending and kept taxes down....

The "moderate" and "conservative" freshman Democrats have a mixed record so far in this Congress on a wide range of issues related to economic, military and social policies. But most of them have shown that, in a pinch, they do what their party's liberal leaders tell them. Five of the "moderates" mentioned above--Altmire, Boyda, Carney, Giffords and Lampson--have followed the party line on every important and controversial vote so far this Congress."

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