I have never understood why the guy making $35-$40,000 a year parrots the talking heads from the right about why we shouldn't tax people making $500,000 a year a little more.


At the same time, i have never understood a really poor person saying we should tax the rich more....when that term to them is relative. To them the guy making $15.00 an hour might be rich.


Ultimately the really rich in this country are not really affected one way or the other, because they have tax shelters and trusts to put their money into. So the 'rich' that get taxed is usually the upper middle class and it rolls down from there.


Edited by MartyMoose (08/16/11 06:18 PM)
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