What is Fair and Fair Share?

I guess we will never know since people just do not believe in being fair. That being said even Romney uses the word fair in his tax plan. “Tax: Fairer, Flatter, and Simpler." Don't believe it much, but it sounds good. So what's fair to you Bob? Then maybe we could get some where.

1. The rich can afford to contribute more to the nation as I whole then I can, because they have at least $250,000 in income and I only have $10,200. If the situation were reversed I'd be happy to pay more because it's what America needs. 2. Affirmative action deals with racism, which is still a real thing and trying to undo the history of that. 3. Under the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare people can't be kicked off insurance because they have a pre-existing condition and also insurers must accept everyone. This is a great advantage to me, as I have such a condition and many insurers refuse me. Also you can keep kids on insurance until they are 26 and get a rebate if your company doesn't spend more than half your premium on care. Also, their are no more lifetime limits on expenses, like wheelchairs, surgeries, treatments. These are all good things in my opinion and I have researched this law exhaustively.

Mitt Romney has shown how much money he donates to charity. When are the Obama's going to do the same? Obama wants to take my money and give it to people who don't want to work or have made bad life choices. I owe doctors and hospitals a lot of money that I can't repay. But Obama wants me to help people that don't care about themselves let alone me. If Obama really cared about the unemployed or on welfare he would deport all illegals. Then people would have no excuse to complain about no jobs. Would it solve all our problems? No,but it would help a great deal.

I agree with Obama, and so do the majority of the American people. The United States is the greatest country in the world, and if you don't think so look at the line of people waiting to get in. One of the reason this country is so great is because of the equal opportunity that all American have to succeed. Now, some people have advantages over others (like Mitt Romney's comment about borrowing money from family members to start a company, most Americans don't have wealthy relatives, unlike Romney), but we all choose to follow the herd, or set our own paths. His "same rules" comments are something that all of us know are not common today. Our small businesses are facing competition from large corporations who build locations where they pay the least amount in operating cost. The corporations are fighting to make the playing field less "fair" and tilted in their favor. Manufacturers have a larger problems such as competition from markets that don't have to pay for health care, and are subsidized by their home governments (see Honda, and Toyota). Obama to his credit has tried to even the playing field when he went after Chinese tires. But, that is only one of billions of items that need to be addressed. Let me take your points one at a time: 1. Our tax system, and Mitt Romney favors the rich paying a different tax rate. 2. Affirmative action given the country great leaders who may have not had this opportunity in the past. 3. He actually wants COMPETITION in health care. Under Obamacare, I can keep my company based insurance, or buy it from my state. But it is MY choice, not my employer who may be charging me more to cover the expense of other employees. 4. How are illegals treated any differently than most of our families that came to this country? Most didn't have to apply of anything, they just came here on a boat. I personally think he means that everyone should have a "fair share" at the American dream. It is your own personal choice if you want to be wealthy in this country, or just be a bum. But, it is your choice, and Obama wants to make sure that everyone has that fair choice. But, it is getting harder to, when you look at college cost going through the roof, and republicans talking about raising interest rates on student loans. This will only create class warefare with the wealth Americans sending their kids to college, and the rest won't be able to afford it. Is that fair?

I watched the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Broke last night, and it had a huge group of athletes talking about what they make. Since there's a huge problem of athletes going broke (at least per public perception of "millions"), a lot of these athletes were explaining tax brackets. Guys like Sean Salisbury, Leon Searcy and Keith McCants made it very clear that big earners are in that top tax bracket, and receiving $1 million on the contract only gives you $600k after the tax man cometh. And then you get agents, insurance, players' association, and a slew of other fees. So a million on paper isn't anywhere close to a million in the pocket. Translating this to small and mid-sized businesses, where there are even more expenses paid out per dollar earned, such as payroll and rent and utilities and multiple types of insurance, I don't think the average individual understands just how much is spent to keep a business afloat. When this "fair share" line starts to get thrown around, it's never accompanied by any realistic numbers. And the fact that Obama's playing favorites just makes it all seem that much shadier. Nobody's playing by the same rules in America. And I don't believe that to be anyone's fault. It's just that you can't set up a one-size-fits-all system, at least the way our tax code is currently structured. But our President does exacerbate the problem instead of fixing it with his leanings, while seeming to want everyone else to make up the difference. If only that, it'd be enough for me to balk at the idea of having him as President.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/02/22/the_fairness_fraud/page/full/ To ask whether life is fair -- either here and now, or at any time or place around the world, over the past several thousand years -- is to ask a question whose answer is obvious. Life has seldom been within shouting distance of fair, in the sense of even approximately equal prospects of success. Life is NOT fair. Spoiled children think it should be, adults know it is not.

Oh that is easy Winners - politicians their friends unions contributors Losers - The rest of us working shleps