Almost everyone in America now pays at least half of what they make in fees/taxes/assessments/licenses/tolls/state taxes etc.
What liberals fail to be attacked on is the fact that the nanny state cannot and will not lift up the millions who need it. Every city has despondent people, mostly male, moping around, stuck living in some crap hole with no prospects of a decent future. Most are not capable of gaming the system to be what they aspire to be, which is affluent. The only real shot at that is for the economy to be booming, and that will not happen under owebama.
While I applaud you for making the attempt, the Rats simply tap into the basic sins of envy, greed, and covetessness. In this day, you are trying to swim up the Niagara Falls.
In addition, I have been in the corporate world and made corporate money.
60 hours is not nearly enough. On some occasions I would spend the night in the office and that includes some weekends.
With the hours, pressure and responsibility I earned every bit of the money that I made.
That is why I do not begrudge some of the salaries of some executives that are ‘advertised’ by the MSM.
Something along those lines should be included in your ‘thesis’.
It’s greedy for me to want to keep what I worked to earn, but not greedy for the government to want to take it away from me for their own use - Obama’s obsessed with punishing the successful and economically well off - the rich don’t just pay their fair share; when the top two percent of earners pay over forty percent of the taxes, they’re paying much more than their fair share - - - there’s lots of ammunition, just nobody with enough energy and bravery to deliver it......