Scammed again by corporatists in both parties.

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77. Or that Mitt Romney's multi-million dollar annual income is still taxed playing like it were

capital gains and leaving der Mittens with little more total Federal tax liability, as a percent of his income, than is paid as a percent of total income on the earned income of the poorest among us. Or that as much as 85% of social security is still taxed at the taxpayer's highest marginal rate, thanks to WJC, joyously continued by junior, and, oops, also continued by bho, but surely his people don't realize that little gem. The abject regressiveness of the Federal income tax code has been only minutely reduced and is not the effective corporate income tax rate in the 7% range? Yet all together, let's cut social security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits before any of the aforementioned egregiously inequitable income tax issues are addressed. PS woo me with science: your grasp of all issues addressed in your OP is amazing to me.