it's true: people do not *need* that much money, but taking half of the income of rich people seems extreme...1/3 seems about right to me, but the middle class has to pull it's share of the taxpayers burden too...the politicians are always promising to cut taxes and hand out pork, but they never practice fiscal restraint from their side...thanks to that logic from both parties, the national debt is soaring at an unprecendented rate now with even worse debt problems coming down the pipeline, so everyone is going to have to make sacrifices (not just rich people)...the main problem i have with obama is that he is going to increase the national debt by at least $3 trillion...that's still better than mccain who will increase the national debt by $5 trillion...it has been established that both candidates are going to screw america - now we're just haggling over the price