[TheRealThing]

Collected, paid, confiscated or took...Whatever you want to call it.

I would call it extorted. This is one of the main points the Tea Party activists are trying to shed light on. The government is taxing us to death. Then you got people that are so blinded by bias they actually line up with BHO in insisting the rich be taxed more. Billionaires have so much it's not so hard for them to get up and say, "yeah go ahead and tax me more". A billion dollars is a staggering sum of money. In fact, if a billionaire spent $14,400.00 dollars a minute, every minute, of every day, it would take 695 days to go through just 1 billion. Most billionaires tend to have multiple billions. I'd like to be on the recieving end of an hour's worth of that situation.

But, what if the government just takes every dime that the so called rich make in the fiscal 2012 tax year? Our national debt right now is $15,626,832,596,694.96 dollars, so we seize the weathy's earnings for 2012 and reduce the debt by less than a half trillion because the interest for one year on 15.6 T is at least, you guessed it, half a trillion dollars.

It's a total sham, and SKINNYPIG is right. We need more taxpayers. The ill-advised "Great Society" experiment has failed miserably. Taxpayers have bought the troubles of all who have brought nothing to the party but the 'want to'. The ranks of those who don't contribute have swollen to epic proportions because Uncle Sam has encouraged those on the government dole to belly up to the bar. The effect has been the exponential INCREASE of folks on welfare, not the envisioned decrease of Lydon Baines Johnson.

Welfare should be reduced to the level of being just enough to get by, not the replete list of perks we see these days. But back to my point, where once the taxpayer far out numbered the welfare recipient. Now, we see that trend reversed in that those with their hand stuck out have become so many, working folks can no longer meet the payments. The welfare segment of the American social structure can no longer be supported by the working public. Unfortunately, instead of saying sorry folks we have to start cuttng back, the Dems have launched a propaganda campaign against the so called rich making them out to be the villains, instead of the ever growing group of malcontents who think all they have to do is yell a little louder when they want even more free goodies.

I don't know how everybody else feels about all this but, it's time for these folks to find a job and support theirselves in what ever fashion they can muster. It is also time to change administrations.