You paid the same rate ? No, you paid a lower rate, so the "rich" have done more of their part than you have.
Actually, under Bush's tax cuts, your effective tax rate fell more than the top rate, so you got the biggest break.
So if you are really interested in doing your part, which you are not, you'd be advocating a tax increase for yourself.
No, the greedy and unregulated squandered our investments so they could make in one year what 80,000 NY school teachers make in one year, many of which avoided paying taxes through such things as "retention bonuses!"
Their greedy behavior killing the economy because those on the lower rungs have no money to buy the products made our companies.
If we had not wasted 3 trillion dollars war in Iraq for the rich people, we would not be in such dire straits. All the rest of us that do not have stock in the oil companies had to pay for that. So don't talk about us doing our part!
the kid who just got finished with 12 years of secondary education, foregoing 12 years of income, while incurring massive debt, just got his first $250K payday, and is still showing a large negative net worth. Yet, your envy and greed desires to stick it to him.
No one making a quarter of a million dollars gets any sympathy from me!
actually, your rates will go up by a higher percentage when we return to the old rates, and the guy making 250 will go up by less. He will also shed the alternative minimum tax that he was paying in addition to his income tax.
Problem solved then!
Maybe one day you will figure out that the difference between the real wealth in this country and those making 250.
You wish to punish the little guys. The truley "rich" will not be contributing.
Their lack of w-2 income is what allows folks like Theresa Kerry to pay a much lower effective rate than you or I. That ain't changing.
We'll see, we have a new sheriff in town now!
Your envy, and desire to make someone pay is clouding your judgement.