Tea Party voters in my town are pretty sick of the Tea Party.

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25. Certainly Mom & Pop operations

Are being taxed appropriately according to what they pay themselves from their company. I can't help but notice the terminology you use throughout our back and forth on the topic. Take "job creators"... consumers are job creators, not rich people. Economies are dynamic entities, so we may end up in a circular argument like which came first, chicken or egg sort of thing. Anyway, the job creator thing is not as simple as a benevolent millionaire deciding to hand out a few jobs on a given day. Unless a person was lucky enough to win the womb lottery, most people are not born rich. So a person may start a small business using a government SBA Loan. If it becomes successful and blossoms into a multinational conglomerate, I can assure you that it didn't get that way all by the sweat of the original owner's brow. Many productive employees and consumers who make enough of a wage to purchase the goods or services of this company also helped. So the whole job creator thing is just a jingoistic tool of conservative economic theory. And furthermore, tax rates paid by corporations or wealthy people has nothing to do with how many jobs are "created" at a particular place of employment. Companies hire and fire based on market demand, not what they pay in corporate or even wealthy individual tax rates.