So the wealthy pay "most of the taxes", but a modest increase in their tax rate would not help in the slightest. That's a contradiction, On the other hand, the lower tiers, who are apparently greatly undertaxed by your reckoning, and contribute little to the public coffers, could really help a great deal if their tax rate was bumped up by the same amount in a flat tax. Say what?

You've tried that dodge before, TB. It's not going to work now any better than it did before. The rich pay more in taxes because THEY HAVE MOST OF THE MONEY. It's not really that hard. Think about it.

But its not just the statistics and the accounting. Its common decency, which is why I used the draft analogy: you don't keep rich kids out of the Army because there are so few of them compared to the poor it would make no difference.

The people with the bulk of the nation's wealth are morally obligated to pay more. They are the ones who have benefitted the most, they are the ones who can afford it the most, they are the ones whose standard of living is going to be affected the least. You don't get a reserved seat on the lifeboat just because you've got a first class ticket.

Remember, the necessities of life, a gallon of milk, a tank of gas, a pound of hamburger, a month's worth of health insurance, the cost of everything we all need to exist makes up a smaller proportion of the wealth of the rich than it does of the poor.

It would be nice if the rich were out there investing in "creating jobs", but they are not, are they? Instead, they are spending millions in smashing unions, exporting jobs, lobbying politicians and hiring illegals.

I don't blame them for wanting to pay less in taxes. No one wants to pay more taxes. But spare us the moralistic, patriotic frugal accounting bullshit because no body believes it any more.