Hannity & Colmes: Turdblossom Whining About Tax Proposals

respectfully I don't really think that the disparity between the rich and the poor necassarily proves that anything is unfair.

Micheal Jordan scores WAY more baskets than you or I ever could..WAY more..does that mean that the game of basketball is unfair? Or has he simply much more talented and worked much much harder to acquire his basketabll skills? At both ends of the spectrum 'luck' plays a role, but most people who are weatlhy/poor earn what they earn due to their own actions/inaction.

MJ could prevent other players from scoring some baskets because he played against them and actually played defense too. When businesses or their owners/employees play aggressive defense it's called monopoly. These "rich" might be the best at their game, but when they use these tactics to block shots and make it impossible for anyone else to be the best at the game they can be, it's unethical. Do you think George Mikan should have been free to continue what he was doing regarding goaltending?

that's an interesting point. To continue the analogy, while goaltending takes place in the NBA, I think it is a rarity. Present day, (not 20 years ago) I really don't think there are are very many people trying to "keep the lower class down". Even if there are, I don't think high taxes do anything to help the situation.

It depends on who you're taxing. Rove yet again fails to elaborate on this. The statistics he's giving are for people in the "top bracket" of wealth, not people that are now struggling. The increased taxes (actually reinstated taxes from before Bush's cuts) would be for people that already make over 200 or 250 thousand dollars a year. Those cuts meant more cash in wealthy people's pockets. Whether they intend to or not, by not paying taxes they are contributing to major problems.