The rich also have more.

And who does all the work, like pick up the trash? Not the rich.

IMHO, the rich should pay more because they have more to protect.

Jeff

What percentage of the nation's personal wealth do those rich have?

WTF is an "incommer"???

That doesn't make sense because the deficit reduction plan was part of
Clinton's first budget, and zero Republicans voted for it, remember?
No, of course not because it's factual.  And because of that bill,
plus some clever sloganeering that appealed to the stupid, the
Republicans won back control of Congress in the following year.
You'll probably contend that the economy grew and the government ran
surpluses because the Repubicans held down the budget, and I don't
deny that, but the problem with that line of reasoning is that it
doesn't explain why the same Republican Congress tossed fiscal
constraint out the window once Clinton left office and GW Bush became
President.  To that you'll probably squawk, "9/11!", but that doesn't
make sense because Lyndon Johnson managed to avoid big deficits and
still pay down the debt/GDP during his presidency, even though the
expensive Vietnam war was going on, and a bunch of new social spending
was introduced.

The fact is, Clinton was a very good president in regards to economic
policy, while GW Bush has been one of the worst.  Of course that won't
stop crazy people like you (no offense, Charles -- you're still #1 in
that respect, by far) from blaming Clinton and Obama.

Here's what Clinton hater and Reagan and GW Bush administrations
Treasury Dept. official Bruce Bartlett wrote about Bill Clinton in
2004:

http://tinyurl.com/clvofl

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"...a president can be judged only by what actually happens on his
watch; not by what he thought or intended or by what he might have
done but wasn't able to.

"On this basis, conservatives should rethink the Clinton presidency.
At least on economic policy, there is much to praise and little to
criticize in terms of what was actually done (or not done) on his
watch.

"Bringing the federal budget into surplus is obviously an achievement.
After inheriting a deficit of 4.7 percent of gross domestic product in
1992, Mr. Clinton turned this into a surplus of 2.4 percent of G.D.P.
in 2000 -- a remarkable turnaround that can be appreciated by
realizing that this year's deficit, as large as it is, will reach only
4.2 percent of G.D.P., according to the Congressional Budget Office.

More important, from a conservative point of view, Mr. Clinton
achieved his surplus in large part by curtailing spending. Federal
spending fell to 18.4 percent of G.D.P. in 2000 from 22.2 percent in
1992. Although he raised taxes in 1993, he cut them in 1997. He even
reduced the capital gains tax -- something his predecessor, George H.
W. Bush, tried but failed to accomplish.

Although much of the budgetary savings came from lower defense
spending and reduced interest on the debt, entitlement spending also
fell to 10.6 percent of G.D.P. in 2000 from 11.5 percent in 1992. Mr.
Clinton signed welfare reform into law in 1996, the only time in
American history when an entitlement program was abolished. By
virtually all accounts, welfare reform has been a success.

Mr. Clinton was also steadfast in his support for free trade. It is
doubtful that anyone else could have persuaded Congress to approve the
North American Free Trade Agreement. On monetary policy, he
reappointed Alan Greenspan, a Republican, as chairman of the Federal
Reserve, thereby helping to bring inflation down to its lowest
sustained level in a generation.

By contrast, Mr. Clinton's Republican successor has caused the surplus
to evaporate, raised total federal spending by 1.6 percent of G.D.P.,
established a new entitlement program for prescription drugs and
adopted the most protectionist trade policy since Herbert Hoover.
While President Bush has done other things that conservatives view
more favorably, like cutting taxes, there is no getting around the
reality that Mr. Clinton was better in many respects.

The fact that Mr. Clinton accomplished conservative objectives against
his will in some cases, and in others only because a Republican
Congress prevented him from enacting more liberal reforms, is beside
the point. What matters is what actually was accomplished while Mr.
Clinton was in office. On that score, he did much that conservatives
should approve of."

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That'll be a repair that's worse than the damage, if the craftsmanship
of GW Bush is any indication. What are we Republicans going to do,
have Bobby Jindal dress up in a Deputy Barney Fife uniform?  Really,
don't you notice the resemblence?  He'd better not sniff or shake if
he doesn't want people to be reminded so much.