Originally Posted by jibber

Oh for christs sake. No where in my post did I say that someone who makes $150K a year had six houses. I called people who make $150K a year wealthy, and anyone who says otherwise has lost touch with reality. I used the 6 houses example because there are a lot of people in the US who are that wealthy, and like Big3 stated, they are not the ones paying the majority of the taxes. Furthermore, my post was mainly to highlight the difference of opinion that I suspect we have on the issue. I have no problem with taxing the very rich more than they currently are, for the reasons that Big3 stated earlier. People making around 30K a year are the ones bearing the brunt of taxes, and they are the ones that are needed to bolster the economy. Economies fail most spectacularly when the middle class is largely abolished, and in giving tax cuts to the very wealthy, it serves only to widen the gap between the very wealthy and the poor, and since the taxes will have to come from somewhere, the middle class will be left to pick up the slack.