Let's just keep everything at the status quo...that seems to be working wonderfully. Why should rich people have to pay more in taxes? Joe is right, they shouldn't have to give more that gets back to the middle class. We need a flat tax...everyone pays the same. That's fair. If you are in the middle class, then you just have to work harder to make more money. I mean...the money you make is proportional to how hard you work. Those CEOs and hedge fund millionaires have worked much harder than your average steelworker, teacher, or social worker. Heck...teachers, they hardly do anything, that's why they are paid so poorly. Why should somebody like a CEO or a large business owner who has worked hard to get where they are have their taxes increased, when somebody like a teacher, who hardly works at all, would be raking in the hundreds of dollars in tax breaks?
It [censored]ed me off when McCain said it wasn't fair that somebody who has worked hard to get to the position to own their own business would have to pay more taxes. Like the people that never get to a level where they make 250,000 a year just didn't work that hard or something.
It isn't socialism...it isn't communism. The rich already pay a higher % in taxes than the poor, so if you think what Obama wants to do is socialist, then government has been socialist for a long time. He just feels the %s need to be changed, and I couldn't agree more. The poor and middle class need help, now more than ever. They are the ones that this recession is hurting the most.