You Just Don't Get It, Do You Joe?!!

Rodney, I believe I get it but I am not sure if the American people get it. First on the article, it was on the Opinion section and I couldn't find the name of the author but forget that for now. The big thing here is should the rich pay more taxes. Wellllllllllll I for one vote yes. How much more.... a bunch more. My own personal belief is we should go to a flat tax. Let no one get a tax deduction. I believe that Obama has the answer. Let the richest 5% have a tax increase and the lower 95% get a tax deduction. :-) By the way, I am in the lower 95% .... what about you.

You know I am not sure that he is that far off the mark. We all have different ways of supporting our government. Most of us are not in uniform, but that does not mean we can't play a role. If I lived in a family burdened by serious debt, I think I would consider it my duty to work with the rest of my family to get out of debt. I think most members of the family would expect people with more resources to help out a bit more, but everyone would still be expected to do something to help. If some of our citizens make $42,000,000 even when their companies fail under their leadership (Carly F at HP), maybe they can at least do a really fair share in helping out the country when their policies get Wall Street and Main Street in trouble. As for Jesus helping the downtrodden, I think the Bible is full of instances that show he did. That's where the concepts of unionism came from--a fair wage for work rendered, a living wage, that would support a family. Of course back then, CEOs did not earn in one day what some of their employees do in an entire year.

He obviously does not put HIS OWN money where his mouth is...quote "Mr. Biden and his wife recently released their tax returns, and they reported an average of $380, or 0.2% of their income, in annual charitable contributions over a 10-year period. The national average was about 2% of income."

Well, that article pretty much sums it all up. As I understand it, the Catholic Church leaders are still at issue with Biden over his abortion stance... or lack of a public stance as it were. How they will react to this bit of blasphemy is anyone's guess. Maybe with both feet in there like that, he won't be able to make many more gaffes... or Obama could sew his lips shut.

Oops! Now the cat is out of the bag and everyone knows what the liberals' plans are on taxation of the American people. What we've been hearing is they will raise taxes on the rich only, but surely they will want everyone to be "patriotic" and do their part for their country. Maybe they will send Biden to England until November, like they did Bill Clinton until the DNC was kicked off.