The refusal of the Congress and succeeding Administrations to require everyone, including large

[indepat]

corporations, to pay the fair and equitable portion of the income tax burden necessary to pay for anticipated governmental operations, service its debt, and meet its other obligation is welfare, pure and simple, by allowing those not paying their fair and equitable portion, in effect, to suck at the public welfare teat. This is tantamount to misfeasance of office of such magnitude to boggle the mind of anyone possessing even a modicum of critical-thinking skills for it is most destructive to the very fabric of society as to be a crime against this Republic, its Constitution, and we the people, plain and simple. :patriot:

[moondust]

1. Starting with Reagan

Americans should have been warned that, in a system where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the middle class slowly fades away, tax revenues from the wealthy will have to grow to offset decreasing revenues from the growing numbers of poor and unemployed.

[applegrove]

2. And it is the heavy trucks that tear up the highways and require them to be repaved. Not the cars.