EDITORIAL: Don't slow recovery with tax hikes
The Daily Advertiser (excerpt)

Today is the deadline for filing your personal federal income tax returns. We don't know if the postponement of the usual April 15 deadline had anything to do with Palm Sunday, but the extra three days no doubt inspired millions of hosannas among those who prefer to render unto Ceasar at the last possible moment.

While procrastination hasn't changed, the way we file taxes has. The Internal Revenue Service says that 70 percent of returns are now filed electronically. And that has a lot to do with why post offices don't say open until midnight to provide that crucial April 15 postmark in the numbers in which they once did. The Internet saves postage, and it's great for those procrastinators.

This filing deadline comes at a time of great consternation over tax policy. U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has introduced a deficit reduction plan that would lower the top marginal tax rate — the rate you pay on your last dollar of income — to 25 percent. President Barack Obama returned fire with a plan that raise the top rate for the wealthiest Americans.