An Occupy Wall Street protester would look at these houses with their perfectly manicured lush green lawns (in the Arizona dessert!!), the opulent copper gutters and sculptures, the beautiful architecture and sizable lots and think "These people should be paying more in taxes to be fair to people who don't have such amenities!"
I look at these houses and think, "How blessed are we to live in a country where people can work hard, create jobs for other people, succeed in business and be rewarded for their efforts? And how can I earn such success for my family?"
I'm so tired of hearing the class warfare buzzwords of "Fair Share" when:
- Over 49% of the country pays zero dollars in taxes,
- The 10% of households with the highest incomes pay over 70% of all federal income taxes,
- There are current examples of how raising taxes reduces overall tax revenue,
- If we taxed 100% of the earnings of all the "rich" (people making over $250,000 per year), it would only raise $900B annually, when our government adds $1.6T in debt each year, so taxing the rich does not solve our deficit problem.
I don't think this whole tax the rich propaganda actually has anything to do with reducing our deficit - it has everything to do with dividing the people in our country in an election year.

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