[expatpat]

You guys are incredible! 30 is 29.87 rounded to the nearest integer and perfectly correct. Getting 20,15, or 10 from 29.87 is just outright cheating -- which says something about your other arguments, I think.

[EternalVigilance]

When you persist in arguing about the percentage of the tax rate, all you're doing is continuing to ignore the simple fact that the level of the rate is not a commentary on HOW you collect taxes, anyway.

It is a commentary on the level of government SPENDING.

The only thing you end up repeatedly doing is arguing against the means to make that level of excessive SPENDING as VISIBLE to the American people as is possible.