conservatives immediately (and exclusively) focus on income taxes as if they were the only tax which they are not. Their are federal exise and other taxes and state and local taxes which take a bigger share of income than the income tax and which are heavily regressive. As a minor aside the 50 percent not paying federal income tax is total nonsense. Even the ultra conservative Heritage puts it a 40 percent. My income is not much above the median and I pay it. You pay income tax on income over about 12 thousand dollars (those are the base exemptions).

that says a lot about the values of the posters. The extreme adulation of the right for the wealthy is unique in the modern world.... Its remarkable coming so son after the sixties and seventies when egalitarian sentiments were quite strong in the US.