And people get hired to make the products purchased by those people who buy things, thereby earning wages on which they pay taxes, and having money with which to buy things themselves, and so on and so on and so on.

You need to get out more, Try today's (Jan. 2, 2013) NY Times Op-Ed page. there are three pieces, each of which is much stupider than this one.

Get a life.

Based upon you posts, you have nothing to worry about when it comes to the tax rate on your future earnings. You're not going to have any. No one uses a doctor who's an idiot.

The CBO uses static projections. That is why their projections are never accurate. There are two things they ignore. One would be the loss to the economy of the some $80 Billion from the tax hike. Those 70,000 jobs (one year of 700,000) come to mind. There would certainly be some revenue from those jobs to partially offset the $80 Billion. And then there is the money those 70,000 people would spend, which would also lead to some tax revenue. Second is the fact that those "rich" people might just arrange their affairs to shelter some money thereby offsetting the tax increase. These are the sort of things that static projections fail to take into account. I presume that you see the problem.

I doubt that the FCC reports on this sort of thing, unless Imus or Rush Limbaugh is carrying.

Every report since the initial report has stated that the killer used the Bushmaster rifle. The rifle found in the car's trunk was a shotgun.