What the future needs!

Via Mark Perry at Carpe Diem, top 400 taxpayers pasy 2% of all income taxes.

I'm beginning to think that our current President, like our last one, is a complete idiot.

Today's Downsizer Dispatch from DownsizeDC.org: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer wants to raise your taxes. Send your Representative and your two Senators a letter rejecting this idea. You can copy or borrow from my letter . . . Here's what Steny Hoyer said at the Brookings Institution on Monday, March 1: “No one likes raising revenue (increasing taxes), and understandably so, but if you’re going to buy, you need to pay." I've got a better idea -- don't buy! Millions of Americans have had to cut their expenses because of the economy. Their prudence is fruitless if you raise their taxes to pay for YOUR orgy of spending. And please don't tell me that you're going to tax the rich, and NOT me. Rich people don't spend most of their money -- they invest it to create jobs! That's how they got rich. So the more you tax them the fewer jobs there will be. YOU don't create jobs, rich people do! Instead, you destroy jobs with high taxes and w...

Via The Hill : “No one likes raising revenue, and understandably so,” Hoyer said in an address at the Brookings Institution. “But if you’re going to buy, you need to pay. If need be, I am hopeful that both parties will agree to look at revenues as part of the solution — not as a gateway to higher spending, but as part of a compromise that cuts spending and balances the budget,” he added.