To begin with no one actually pays 39.6% of their income as federal taxes. By the time the tax code is applied to individuals and corporations they pay anything from -30% to 30%. And therein lies the problem. Instead of having a fair flat 15% income tax for both individuals and corporations, we have created a tax system that is designed to give one special interest group or another some sort of advantage. All of this has been for benefit of the politicians and to the detriment of the economy.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote that taxes are the price of civilization.  Those who constantly whine about taxes do not understand their obligation to pay the price of civlization.

I think we in the U.S. have a great society, and with that comes the obligation to pay taxes--local, state or federal.  Compared to the 35% tax burden in most other developed countries of the world, we in the U.S. have it good at 22%

If Americans want to move abroad to avoid paying the price of American cvilization, then I say revoke their citizenship and bar their re-entry.  Good bye, good riddance.

There are millions of foreigners yearning to come here and become Americans and bring their skills and hard work to enrich our great country.

Rich people will always protect their assets...that is why they have them. If I felt the US govt could spend the money better than I could, then i would not mind giving it to them, but I am 37 and i have seen these politicians screw off our $$ and create the huge mess we are in now.  All I know the more the govt does the more s$%t they get us into....they all involved in the Military and we got WARS and we involved in every countries ****, involved in education and we are not even graduating half of the inner city kids and their student aid crap has kids going to college f%^ked financially, involved in guaranteeing private mortgages which was the main catalyst for this housing fiasco, involved in  health care and we know how that is going and we going even deeper in, involved in fixing social issues through the welfare state and we are just getting worse and worse each year, involved in business and capitalism and we losing jobs/economy and crimes and bad business practices still going on (Even bailing these people out)...ugh I can go on and on...see my point? I know Libertarians scare people but we need to get the Federal govt out of a bunch of sh$%^t in our lives to fix anything. Sorry, I gave up my faith in politicans long ago...

The market is up like 1000 points since the election.The smart money knows the

best man got reelected.