Ma'am;... If you rich folks think it does not work for you, then think of how it feels to carry the whole stupid country on your back with your labor, and pay all the taxes in the process, and then, not have it work for you.... I'm so sorry if you people have to pay taxes on the profit you squeeze from us... Consider this: If you paid us more, maybe we would have more to support the government with.... Only twenty percent of our economy actually comes from production and the rest is service of some sort... That twenty percent supports the other eighty percent; and of that twenty percent, over 90% is exported or shall I say, was exported... Now does it not seem a little retarded to try to support the whole nation on twenty percent of the economy??? Because that is the way it is... Only when you produce goods and values do you carry all the non productive services... But across the board, wages have been driven down so that 50% off the people never make enough to qualify for income taxes... Never mind you say... Rather than tax the rich who have money, tax the poor who have nothing with a sales tax, except, what ever you set the sales tax at, if they cannot afford to buy, it will not pay much of taxes... Why not consider that perhaps it is not good for society to produce mostly services??? Why not consider that driving wages lower and lower, and lower until more people than ever are on the edge of poverty -has never worked for any society??? Why not consider that the more rich we have the more they demand their wealth, and feel entitled to their wealth without obligation to society??? They cannot get the big picture... They cannot see the damage they do... Some one should draw them a sketch.... Show the rich as a man on top of a centapede, or even a whole army of centapedes to represent all the working people.... And show the centapedes with a big zero representing all the free money the working people have to support society.... Then show the rich with a big plus sign to represent all the money they have invested, or in the bank, or buying t-bills.... Now, the rich only need so much, and money they have invested is a negative because that means interest profit has to be squeezed out of the centapedes, who have nothing... But in addition, there is the government, and you can draw that as a man with a gun, and he wants to get paid.... In fact he has to get paid or everything goes to hell and the centapedes end up all over the rich guy looking for lunch... So what do you think is going to happen, realistically??? Is the government going to give up and take nothing??? Clearly the centapedes are stepped on, but if they are not going to give up and start over, you folks, the rich folks and your government have got to find some one to step on besides the poor, because now the poor are too poor... For what we get out of the deal we don't need any of you... We can go roll in the mud if we begin to miss our parasites, and we will pick up something....Thanks...Sweeney

All true Saunders. How long did it take you to come to this great discovery?

Ma'am; .. I am no wile coyotte or anything; but if the facts for the rest of the country hold true, that the top one half of one percent has the same income as the bottom fifty percent, why shouldn't they pay fifty percent of the taxes at least, and more for the top one percent total??? I think you guys like figures as long as they can be used to paint a false picture of what is happening... What do you think???...Thanks...Sweeney