Inyet, they find themselves running around preaching that the rich need to pay more.
The top 20% "rich" bracket pays nearly 87% of all FED Income taxes. Do some of you have problems realizing what this means? Essentially, when our government needs to pay our bills, the top 55% have to not only pay their share, but also the share of the remaining 45%. But the lower class is suffering...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/45-americans-pay-no-federal-140345017.html
My view? Make like all the countries that you liberals advocate for and let's go VAT. Instead of taking from people that earn money, why don't we reverse it and make it based off those that consume money. You know you guys love to toot the socialist demographics of euro nations, so what are you waiting for? Get out there and push for VAT.