.... (posted accidentally), regardless of its character. If you have to pay 36% on every marginal dollar of your income, why shouldn't the guy who makes as much or more than you do pay at the same rate?

Hedge fund managers' income are taxed at a less-onerous capital gain rate. Why should hard-working Americans subsidize them, Rich? All income should be taxed at the same rate.

Patriot: "Don't give up hope. Being afraid of dissapointment is understandable but don't let it erase the possibility of there being hope." Knowing that there are so many people like you out there is why I have given up hope for America.

Mike: "Liberals, Ozzy, others; Most of my working career I was self-employed (contractor). I think I can speak for many others who were similar to my position when I say.....the day an employee worries about how much money "I" make, is the day they are fired." My job is to help my clients make money. So yes, I worry about it.

wiseone: "Ozzy, Any lover who would rat out her man is a piece of dung. And any story you get from an ex-lover is hardly objective. And there is nothing in your post that indicates it was a bad idea to expand a the nuclear waste site." Perry created a lucrative monopoly for the man who bribed him -- and here, I thought you LIKED free enterprise and competition.

wiseone: "A frat brother of mine with a Masters in Physics works in the nuclear power industry. He says the problems with nuclear waste are blown way out of proportion to the extent of the problem and that there is no PRACTICAL reason why we can't quadruple our production of nuclear power." Fukushima. Reliance on conventional nuclear power is like playing Russian roulette: Sooner or later (in Japan's case, now), there will be a bullet in the chamber.

IOW, you are the kind of guy I ask subordinates to supervise.

You only watch the Fox Propaganda Channel, right? It's been 25 minutes since you said you have to go to work, and you are still here....

And yet, you read the Weakly Double-Standard? That's like a Soviet apparatchik, refusing to read anything but Pravda. Nice, Comrade.

M.L. Bushman Wrote: 19 minutes ago (9:07 AM): "Just a thought or two before I run off to work." M.L. Bushman Wrote: 1 minute ago (9:26 AM) [comment elided] You're late for your greeter shift. The Waltons will not be pleased.