Incomes up for upper class and rich, down for middle class...

[sethnintendo]

Marks said:

Yeah I get that, people are mad about wealth being unequal and that's fine. I just don't get why people think they should get a free ride through life on other people's hard earned tax dollars. I know not everyone has a fair shake in life, but that just means you need to work harder to get where you need to be. I think all the social programs we have just make people lazy and expect handouts. I don't know when things like welfare went from emergency assistance to people going through a tough time...to what it is now where everyone expects handouts. 

And the other thing I want to say is bringing the rich down through overtaxation isn't going to make things better for the poor. Yeah it'll be more equal but things wouldn't be better. 

Yea that is why I am starting to like the consumption tax more and getting rid of the IRS.  Politicians can just use the IRS and their tax code to further fuel the "class warfare".  If we just paid tax on whatever we bought (and got reimbursed for basic necessities like food) then this would be more fair.  At first I wasn't really into the idea but then I read Fair Tax book by Neal Boortz.  While I didn't agree with everything in his book (and I actually highly dislike him and his radio show), he does make a compelling argument about setting USA up to become once again a manufacturing leader, etc... by getting rid of corp taxes, etc.. by switching to a consumption tax.