[thecavemaster]

This whole idea of taxing the rich and wealthy to expand the middle class makes no sense.

If you want business's to hire more people and grow their business, you need to tax them less. Much less. Our business taxes should not be where they are at. Our taxes should be at such a rate that every company in the world wants to be located here. Not the total opposite of that.

I'm more for a straight tax, but most are for a progressive tax system. I'd be willing to give on that, if they woudl cut business taxes down to around 20%. Which is still extremely high on the world stage, but 16% lower than what it is now, and 19% lower than under Obama. Then once Obama lets the Bush tax cuts expire, I think it goes up to almost 44%

Now are you gonna payy 44% of your income to taxes when you can go across seas, pay around 20-25% and much cheaper labor on top of that, and no benefits.

Walmart provides tons of jobs. Walmart encourages employees to sign up for government benefits. Walmart despises "union talk." Walmart drives small businesses out any place they go. Consider the forces at work within money systems, flows and policies and practices. To me, it's not so much a liberal/conservative thing. I think the, what is it, 5%? of the barons of the earth who own well over half the resources (and that's conservative I think) don't care who has political power that much because, for the most part, their power exceeds in policy making.