Quote Originally Posted by Torog
The top earners pay the most in taxes,it makes sense to give them the biggest tax breaks,because they are most often business owners,who can then turn around and re-invest in their company and hire more workers. I think that you won't be happy until it amounts to income redistribution..well..if it's socialism ya want-then move to a socialist country.
Yes, we see those kinds of reinvestments every day.

CEOs draw astronomical salaries against plunging worker pay whether their companies perform or not - the former Disney CEO, Michael Ovitz, made $140 million dollars for 14 months of work, and it was all legal. Corporations set up off-shore tax shelters evading billions in tax liability, outsource employees to the lowest bidding countries, "manage" pensions into the ground with faulty accounting and into government control.

Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, Global Crossing, WorldCom, Qwest Communications, Xerox, Merck, Vivendi, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Elan, Halliburton, Harken Energy, Wal-Mart; all models of good business behavior, right?

"Taxes are the price we pay for living in a civilized society." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Those who benefit the most from living in America should pay the most for living in America. It's not about income redistribution, it's about responsiblity, something W doesn't understand. If he did, his tax scheme wouldn't shift the tax burden squarely on the middle class, which is where the vast majority of small business owners like you mention reside, at the same time also raising taxes on the poorest while lowering taxes astronomically at the top (source: IRS, CBO).

So no one should dare make an argument that W's plans benefit the poor, which is what you were trying to say with that O'Reilly bullshit.