Okay, this is absurd. Romney paid 14% income tax on $27 million that he didn't even work on (at least recently). Obama paid 22% on a book he wrote, for a grand total of $390k income, including his job as the leader of the free world. So, we can generalize that if you get big bucks, you keep big bucks. If you pay 15% payroll taxes, and another 10 or 15% income tax, you are the working poor. What is more important, another bauble for the trophy wife, or feeding your kids?
How do the job creators (like Romney, who made money on firing people), trickle down? That is a fantasy that Reagan promulgated. The poor are becoming poorer. The rich are becoming richer. That is not the american dream, that is the formula for a third world culture. Innovation comes from us all contributing to science and research. Like Darpa, like NASA, like OSHA, like EPA... don't wipe out those institutions, or we will become stupid and fall behind. Do we really, really, want to fall behind? China took our manufacturing prowess. Offshore tax shelters took our revenue. How about we tighten our tax structure, open our borders to productive, tax paying immigrants, and fund innovation? Let's become the sixties, make the big wigs pay their fair share of their wealth, make everyone responsible for our endeavors, and put us on top again.
We are fighting wars (neither democratic or republican) that are bleeding us. Stop the stench, stop the bleeding... start scientific innovation. We are being left behind by the Large Hadron Collider. Where is our government? Too large to fund science? You decide.
