"What I think is asininely stupid is that you have a system that gives with one hand and takes back with the other," said W. Val Oveson, who was the national taxpayer advocate at the Internal Revenue Service from 1998 to 2000.
The next time David Brooks or some other administration apologist tries to tell you that your candidate wants to "raise taxes on the middle class". Please tell them that the Bush/Repub "tax cuts" did nothing to change the AMT (and here).