You are correct – high taxes for the wealthy do punish the poor and working people.

Many wealthy people use their money very wisely. That is how they became wealthy.

The wealthy who throw their money around are not going to stay wealthy for very long and every time they buy something, they help to employ people who are farther down the ladder than they are. Furthermore, it is not your job, nor the governments job to decide who spends what, when and where.

I in no way endorse cheating on taxes.

If you can’t come up with examples of conservative’s decrying waste. . . then you have not been paying attention.

Most conservatives oppose social spending on the basis that it does not work.

High earners are not often criminals. Seriously, what are you talking about? In fact, I would submit that there is a higher rate of crime in the O cabinet than what exists amongst private company CEO’s.

Haven’t you read The Millionaire Next Door? You should.

It’s amazing to me that people who make higher income are so bitter about poor people who go on welfare. They’re mad that they have to pay so many taxes to support “deadbeats.” First off, social programs are a drop in the bucket of the federal budget. The military dwarfs social programs on the scale that Sirius dwarfs our sun, give or take. Secondly, if people who made higher incomes spent their money wisely, even being in a higher tax bracket for the upper part of their income wouldn’t hurt them much.

But so many high-earners DON’T spend their money wisely. They think they have to have all the latest gadgets and project a certain image of prosperity and they think they’ve “earned” all of this. They’re one of the major groups in hock up to their eyeballs with credit card bills. Their real problem isn’t Uncle Sam but Aunt Io. As in, I Owe.

If you think they should become tax cheats on top of being irresponsible spendthrifts then whatever, I suppose you think the rule of law is important in this country too. But only the laws you support, right?

I don’t like government waste either. But I can’t remember the last time a so-called fiscal conservative rooted out the actual waste the government’s committing. Instead y’all go after social programs. That’s it. That’s the extent of your creativity. It’s like taking out a $2000 a month loan to buy a Lamborghini and then using grocery coupons to buy name-brand packaged foods and claiming you’re saving money that way.

As for Obama’s cabinet, it’s interesting that the media focuses on the fact that he tried to appoint these peole, and not on the fact that high earners are so often criminals. We’re throwing people in prison for life for shoplifting three times in the same state but when it comes to a high earner, just about anything goes and it’s the high earner’s prospective boss’s fault that he skipped out on his taxes.

I weep for my country too, but for different reasons than you do.

My Government wastes far more than your Federal Government.

Who invented Governments anyway?

Regards

I don’t know that people will blatantly stop paying taxes, but I do think that the poor examples from from the top will lead us ‘normal’ people to