Grand Ayatollah James Dobson, along with the political arm of Focus On The Family, could not be happier that the top-tier wealthy in this country will continue to reap their windfall wealth from the Bush Administration's "tax breaks for millionaires", even though Bush himself is gone from office.

Bush tax policy has been spectacularly successful at redistributing the nation's wealth from the poor and middle classes to the extremely rich. That's the consensus of the vast majority of economists, who stand shoulder-to-shoulder in agreement that current tax policy has transferred more money to the highest-income households – those who are least in need of additional resources – than at any other time in history (which is not to say that Libertarian economists at the Cato Institute [= corporate sponsored, Republican] don't pooh-pooh the reality that the rest of us have experienced).

How exactly have we experienced the malign repercussions of Republican largesse to the wealthy? •Absence of promised economic expansion. •Absence of job creation. •Absence of wage growth. •Absence of benefit for most small businesses. •Gentrification and dislocation. •Birth tax on our grandchildren. This pleases Grand Ayatollah James Dobson.

The Grand Ayatollah holds concerns that are not of this world but, rather, exist in the rarefied world of the Republican beneficiary. And thus the Grand Ayatollah has raised his hand and delivered his blessing on the Republican shibboleth that Bush tax policy benefits the middle class, a falsehood as transparently false as any pasty placed upon Carol Doda or Chesty Morgan.

Yet, the Grand Ayatollah has issued the following bull:

Although the Democrat-controlled Congress doesn't appear anxious to renew most of his tax cuts, President Bush is pushing to make them permanent. If they expire, he said, a hurting economy would get worse.

Keith Hennessy, deputy director of the National Economic Council, said the repercussions are obvious.

"If the tax cuts don't get renewed, taxes are going up," he said. "The marriage penalty will return in full force. The death tax will come back to life. And business taxes will be going up, as well."

The marriage penalty penalizes married couples, charging them more for filing taxes jointly than if each one had filed individually.

"As a matter of principle, you don’t want a tax system that has, by design, a discouragement of marriage," said J.D. Foster, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

Foster said it’s not too late for Congress to take action.

"(The tax cuts) are in law to the end of 2010," he said. "So Congress has time to act before a major tax increase would go through."