FIREWALL: Eat the Rich!

^^Yes. Agree wholeheartedly.

If you want to know what the effect of reducing government spending will be just look at Britain where consumer spending had dropped 17% under their new austerity plan. The fall out of that will be a further round of private lay offs, further reducing tax revenues. Nothing fails like failure.

Please take another look. Yes, the middle class is indeed taxed (filed mine a few weeks ago) but he was specifically replying to Michael Moore's assertion at the beginning of the video.

And as to "Nobody said" I remember a CSPAN Washington Journal segment on tax policy in which one caller said "I hope they do start taxing the rich; then the rest of us can take it easy!" That caller isn't the only one, believe me.

@ Anonymous You are right that there needs to be reforms in our tax code. That GE, one of Obama's pet corporate giants, (and others) paid no Fed taxes is an abomination. At the same time, remember that the rich individuals already provide the majority of income tax revenue. However, something also has to be done about entitlements. I don't like it, you don't like it, but something must be done or we will have none. Besides, it's not true that anyone is asking Americans to "give up" Medicare & Medicaid, but changes must be made. Why there isn't the same urgency to reform the tax code baffles me, but no Dem is trying to do anything about that either, so it doesn't fall all on the Repubs (lipservice only from both sides). As to Obamacare, it's Hillarycare Mark II. It caters to the insurance companies by essentially giving them ~35M more clients. The only good thing in that bill is the pre-existing condition stipulations. Also not true is that "we" conservatives wanted all of S.S. to be in the stock market. Bush proposed that taxpayers could voluntarily choose to have up to 1/3 of their S.S. payments invested in the market, with an initial cap of $1000 per year, with checks on older payers to keep them in conservative investments. No different than a 401-K. How did yours do when the market crashed? Mine did lousy, but, as always, it is picking up stseam and on the rise, for now. Anything would be better than giving it all to the government. Now, Obamacrats have thrown in a 2% one year tax cut for individuals' S.S. tax, a cut nobody but politians had asked for. Let's see, S.S. is in trouble, so let's reduce the amount we take in. Good thinking there, eh? And do some research on who proposed reforms for Fannie & Freddy because of their bad practices and who defended them. Then tell me who's responsible for the maket downturn and the housing crisis. It would take another "book" to address the "lie, cheat, steal" issue, so maybe some other time. Same with congress vs president argument. Meantime, if you want a socialist society like Michael Moore wants, have at it. I defend your right to hold that viewpoint...S.F.

Very, very cool video.

Who are you kidding (Would be more powerful)? The fact that we have let our County get into this mess is because "We the People" have become drooling blobs as an electorate; we need to be entertained. Facts and stats put us to sleep. If you are interested, dig up the stats and for yourself. I am. In any case, whether you're left, right, in the middle, a Constitutionalist, an anarchist... whatever, we can't sustain these expenses.

As far as facts go, know what the original income tax code said that an average wage earner should be? 1%! That's right. And if you were really rich, 6%.

Besides, a graduated income tax is straight out of the Communist Manifesto. Look that up too!