Obama, Dems skirt the question on tax hikes (AP)

WASHINGTON-call it unfair, eliminating a break by removing a loophole or unfair or even taking a balanced approach. " Do not call simply by raising taxes.

While working on paring trillion from the deficit in order to increase the nation's debt limit to a must-do in agreement with the Republicans, President Barack Obama and the Democrats are saying almost anything to avoid the pronouncement politically toxic wanting to raise taxes.

Republicans, for their part, are just faster to declare elimination of benefit more rarefied company a fee hike on the job-killing the American people.

It's all about winning the debate public relations beyond the limit of debt and in turn, perhaps, getting a result politically more advantageous the resulting agreement.

"We are at a point where there is no tax good," said Joseph j. Thorndike, Director of the tax history project at tax analysts of nonprofit group. "The value proposition of a tax was destroyed, so no one wants to say, nobody wants to say in any way that the media is saved, because well, poll tax the rich."

Taxes are hardly the only issue crossing the partisan spin cycle — and emerging indiscernible — as the days tick down to a deadline August 2 to lift the Federal Government to face debt or default limit. Take social security. Obama is insisting I do not agree to "cut" benefits — a vague Word, the White House refuses to define, thus leaving room for benefits to be cut without ever say.

Then there is the limit of debt itself. Listen to Republicans, and the whole problem was created by out of control spending now asks to be addressed. Democrats, on the other hand, are more likely to cast the issue as a matter of whether or not the United States will make good on its obligations.

But is that the rhetoric on taxes is brighter and more distorted. Analysts say that in recent decades the Republicans largely have succeeded in turning the taxes in a dirty word, and worth it for the Government is increasingly viewed with disfavour, too. So they get even as voters as some taxpayer-funded services — such as social security — arguing in favor of taxes per se is a nonstarter.

For opponents, "is an argument easy to win because nobody wants to pay higher taxes," said Brendan Daly, former speaker of the House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and now an Executive at Ogilvy public relations in Washington.

The proposals under consideration include raising taxes on small business owners and families potentially low and middle income. You don't hear about that from Obama. Instead, the President focuses on richer and euphemistically speaking. Here are some of the sentences that the President has used the delay to speak of what amounts to raise taxes for some:

• "What we need to do is have a balanced approach where everything is on the table."

"We need to take on the expense in the tax code."

_ "Are the tax cuts I'm proposing we get rid of tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires; tax breaks for oil companies and hedge fund managers and owners of corporate jet ".

_ "You can't reduce the deficit to levels that must be reduced without having some income into the mix."

And here is how Republicans respond:

_ "Tax Hikes on families and job creators would only things worse." — House Speaker John Boehner.

"The focus for us is to make sure you don't raise taxes on individuals who are the creators of the work and you like it or not, the creators of the work are those who can succeed in a context of small business." — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

"Democrats seem to think the solution to the debt crisis is asking taxpayers and businesses struggle to reward their economic management with even more money to spend as they please." — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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