Edwards and taxes

[Presidential candidate John Edwards is embracing a position that has been political suicide in the past - admitting he would raise taxes.

His idea immediately opened him to criticism that he's a tax-and-spender in the mold of Walter Mondale, the 1984 Democratic presidential nominee who said he would raise taxes. In the election, Mondale suffered a 49-state defeat, losing everything except his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia to President Reagan.]

- AP story

Well of course Edwards would raise taxes. Raising taxes is always the Democratic answer to any problem. They never met a tax they didn't like.