BusterStronghart@Gmail.com

 A progressive graduated income tax worked for fifty or sixty years until congress bowed to the power of the legalized bribery known as campaign contributions,while some took outright payoffs from the selfish rich.

The largest job makers are the smaller businesses, who not only hire far more employees than Fortune 500 companies, but also lay off workers at a much slower rate than larger, bottom line oriented businesses.

You've been brainwashed by the selfish rich and probably Fox too, as well as talk radio,which is part of a campaign against the working population started almost forty years ago by the infamous Koch Brothers and their ilk.

Did you know that depreciation ( a tax loophole) works so well for real estate investors that some can spend a life time without paying a nickle in taxes? The oil man's depletion allowance works the same way.

First they suck up the oil that belongs to this country, then they manage to make fortunes without paying taxes. "Leave it t the little people to pay taxes--we don't." Leona Helmsley, one of the super-rich real estate investors of New York, who, among other things, left her dog twelve million dollars.

Then of course, we also have the Ayn Rand cult, a sad adolescent  cult, whose Saint, Ayn Rand, made selfishness into a virtue, was an adulteress, and a back-stabber of her disciples. Most kids grow out of her seductive theories, but, unfortunately, it attracts many people who need to rationalize their selfish impulses.