And tax cuts for all?

Conservatives love cutting taxes. Even more than they love Jesus. [Joke courtesy of Bill Maher]

We all know about how the richest 1% got their taxes cut down while inflation-adjusted hourly wages have gone down 0.5% Blah blah blah. The blogsphere has covered this to death.

I've got three questions for conservatives:

1) I just got my W-2, and my taxes went up this year. WTF? (and by the way, I'm definately in a lower income bracket)

2) How come certain airplane tickets have up to 30% taxes added? Cut airline taxes, help out airlines... what could be better?

3) Why does my cellphone bill have 25% in taxes?

Us liberals don't like taxes, but we realize that they are necessary to live in a decent society. What drives us crazy about conservatives is that for all their tax-cutting talk, our taxes aren't going down--they are going up. It is only the uber-wealthy that benefit.

Spin all you want, my W-2 doesn't lie.