While true, I don’t think most of the middle class is too concerned about how overtaxed the rich are. A good many want them to pay even more.
I think there would be a much better response if we were to talk more about the taxes imposed on production and how it affects job creation and consumer costs. Its America’s hidden VAT tax and most people only understand that things simply cost too much and they blame the manufacturer for it.
I used to work for a company that made interior door skins for Cadillac. The raw materials to make the doors cost less than a dollar but by the time they made it to the Cadillac plant in Livonia the finished product was valued at some $600. Yet even at $600+ the factory still only made a couple of bucks per door after costs.
People need to be made to understand that the individual pieces of the products we buy are taxed and even the machines that make those parts are taxed. The screws are taxed, the glue is taxed, the paint is taxed, the plastic is taxed, the property the factory sits on is taxed, the building is taxed and the energy used is taxed. And then there are labor and transportation costs.
Its not a complicated issue. Years ago My niece asked my why penny candy cost 10 cents. I was able to reasonably explain why candy that cost a fraction of a cent to make cost a dime to buy. She did a few liberal years in college but has since returned to conservatism and I recently found her explaining to he niece more or less what I said more than a decade ago.
If it were up to me, I would dump all the taxes on the consumer at the point of sale and clearly label all things with their actual cost vs taxes.
“Liberalism”, being the political expression of Humanism, caters to the basest of human nature, covetousness and envy.
If they were honest, those that want the rich to be taxed more don’t really want the wealth that “the rich” have,
THEY JUST DON’T WANT “THE RICH” TO HAVE IT,
and want someone to take it away from them.
Fair Tax?
I'm hardly rich, and I paid a combined $57,962 in Federal and State taxes last year. I don't want the rich to pay more, I want us ALL to pay less! Starve the beast folks, all they do is eat more and more of our hard-earned money, and the rotten bastards think WE work for THEM.
This government of ours is so corrupt it's time to clean house of each and every one of 'em and start over. The founding fathers revolted over far less than each one of us puts up with on a daily basis.
As for me, I'm sick of supporting the MOOCHERS. If the Republican Party doesn't win the White House, Senate and overturn Obama-Care and get fundamental tax reform in place, I'm quitting my job Dec 31st, 2013 (the day before Obamacare kicks in) and I plan on being a burden to the bastards. I've had enough.