"We are the ones we have been waiting for"

Why are democrats incapable of realizing that even and fair tax cuts will always benefit the rich because they are the ones paying almost all the taxes? As Rodney just pointed out, the top 5% are paying 50% of the taxes. It's true that Obama's tax plane would benefit 81% of the people in this country. I say 81% because he's actually misled you by omitting the entirety of his tax plan. Any individual making over $200,000 will be taxed at a higher rate and HOUSEHOLDS making more than $250,000 will be taxed at a higher rate. He's just lying to people by saying only those who make more than $250,000 will be effected. Now onto the bigger problem. 40% of the people in this country are paying ZERO income taxes. Those people will still benefit from Obama's tax plan. How can people that are not paying income taxes benefit? WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION! If you're a socialist, and you believe that's right and proper, fine. But don't sit there and deny that it's socialism when anyone who knows anything about politics can see it for what it is. You're just lying to yourself at that point and waiting for the money that someone else earned.

Obama is the one Karl Marx has been waiting for.

Thanks for the link. I think alot of people are scared of the changes they want to make.

Thank you for supporting Barack Obama. You will not be in a majority on mylot, however! If you notice my star rating, you will see what I mean. lol It doesn't bother me one bit, though; I will continue to say what I believe. I think it is great that Obama is focusing on the middle class for a change. We sure haven't been focusing on anything but the rich for the last eight years. They have gotten richer and the rest of us haven't seen any of it "trickling down." I'll be voting for Obama, and so will my daughter and my Mom. I hope the majority of citizens will be, too!

Littlefranciscan, What Obama proposes will have the opposite effect on the middle class. When the people who provide the jobs, invest their money and take ALL of the risks stop spending that money and start cutting jobs many of the middle class will be without jobs and therefore will have not income to tax and therefore will recieve no tax cut! It is ludicrous to think that the top 5% of income earners who already pay a whopping 60%+ of the total income tax bill will not protect themselves in whatever way they can to offset what the "messiah" deems "fair". The tax system is unfair all right but to which end of the spectrum is the question. I hate paying taxes, I believe they are too high and we pay far too much for stupid, idiotic whims of congressmen and senators. But to say that people who make 250K and above deserve to pay much more in percentage that the people wh make 30 thousand is not fair, and no I don't make anywhere near 250K in fact my wife and I won't even be near half that this year, so I'm not adversly affected by this idiotic, misguided tax plan, yet!

I have to agree with you. I can't remember any person running for office that was so focused on the middle class. Most run promising trickle down economics which has never down anything but left us in debt and usually a huge recession.

Right on ... As Powell said he is the right man for the job. He could end up being the best president we have had in a long long time.

Barack Obama's - Yes We Can Video is beautiful, extremely beautiful. I hope someone could say these kinds of things to us. I was struck by the message of hope. No matter what the politics is, the line stands, " We are not divided as our politics suggests. Yes we can."