The truth about taxes.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

Republicans point to the low unemployment rate last year of 4.6 percent, and say that it is a result of the Bush tax cuts. But they forget that the rate was even lower--4.0 percent in 2000--under higher taxes during the Clinton administration.

Indeed, if you go back in history, prosperity and high taxes have often coexisted. In the twenty-two years since the end of World War II that unemployment has been less than 5 percent, taxes have been higher than they are now...