Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.
People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it.
I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.
Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.