Slade,

Here's the problem. First of all, I met you, I think you're a good guy and really nice when I've popped in Roberts office twice I think total. Saw you the first time surrounded by monitors, impressive rig...

Now onto your condescending faux suprise strrreeeetttcchhhing of the "tax bracket" comparison. Let's try this with Robert as the Honrable Judge today.

Your Honor, (no giggling)

The tax brackets affect all American equally at once, sharing the burden among the poor, middle and upper class earners proportionally.

It was this great Nation's proclaimation that all men were created equal, and most importantly all men are entitled to equality under the law. To partition out a particular class of people and impose greater burden upon them simply because they are a minority is not only aggregious but goes against the fundamental rule of equality under the law. When legislation is passed, or allowed to expire,  that singularly punishes a minority because of their status, does that not go against every thing we as a Nation believe in?

Because one minority in this Country already pays the way for the majority does it seem fit to not only bite the hand that feeds, but to take a machete to it? How is this equal? How is this Justice? It is nothing more than a lazy shakedown of those that worked hard for their position and accumulated that wealth over years and sometimes generations. Instead of eyeing the golden goose why not look inward first. It's far easier to cut spending than to take from an already imposed upon minority.

Would we be looking at these minorities to bail the Country out if we had let Capitalism run its course and allow those banks to fail? Would we be digging into those pockets of hard working entrepeneurs had we not bailed out Unions for bad investments and worse contracts that could never be fulfilled? It takes close to 40 workers simply to pay for the benefits of 1 retiree now. How does this now become the problem and responsibility of the 1% minority?  Why does congress get their own retirement parachute? Why do they get better than the average American's health insurance? Why do they receive huge budgets and get their pay raises when the Country is in a recession. It's hard to fight against the sole arguement of a "could have been, would have been, might have been scenario." Are hypothetical allowed in normal Courts? We got scammed into believing that the world would stop spinning life would come to an end as we know it unless we spent money we didn't have, and spend it right away. How on earth did we get through the colonial years....

The fear mongers in Washington are doing nothing but shifting the focus, playing the age old blame game. "He's the reason for your plight", "The rich man is greedy and responsible for all your misery" "He should have to pay the penalty for being rich, he is the source of your problems, not us."

Fact check, the rich man or woman doesn't set the National budget, they don't make laws and they don't make banking or housing or health regulations. People in congress that think they know better than everyone else do those things. Stop falling for the blame game. Stop falling for the slight of hand. The rich already pay the majority of the taxes, why on earth would you make it even more hostile for them?

The minority we are talking about employ people, they create things, they own companies because they are the best and the brightest of America. Our solution..... screw em, let's bleed this turnip dry until they all leave. After the rich are taxed out of the US, what next? Who comes next? Government won't stop their habits, you can take all the rich people's money at once and it still won't pay off the National debt. So what then? When they leave, they'll take their jobs with them, when unemployment reaches 20%, who will you blame then? Bush of course.Reagan? Nixon? It doesn't matter because the elitists and scholars have it all figured out already and they already know, they aren't to blame.

I rest my case.