BTW, before anyone making less than $100,000 per annum tells
me about the wondrous tax cuts the middle class received, please do the math
and subtract figures for state, local tax increases, as well as increased user
fees and taxes on luxuries. Also, please subtract adequate amount for future
debt service, and then tell me how much this tax cut helps us all.
Tom

A book worth reading is _The Politics of Rich and Poor_, by Kevin
Philips. Philips was the Republican strategist credited with
inventing the "Southern Strategy" that got Nixon elected to the
Presidency. He then served as Assistant Attorney General until he saw
what was going on in the White House (it came to be called
"Watergate"), when he resigned in protest.

When ALL taxes are considered, the poor pay a higher percentage of
their income than the rich do. In other words, we have a regressive
tax system in the United States.

vince