You might say the due date for federal income taxes is the starting gun for silly season.
With tax day over, office-seekers of the demagogic sort can tiptoe out of the tall grass and peck around nervously before they finally start calling attention to themselves. And as they do, we'll begin hearing the first refrains again about the need to "shift more of the tax burden onto the rich" and to "give a break to the working man." Predictably, this chirping to redistribute the nation's wealth will yield full-throated halleluiahs from network parrots, most of whom literally seem unable to do anything more than repeat.