There is no wealthy class. As long as their is a draconian drain on one's pocketbook for doing things the right way there will never be a wealthy class. There is however a no class which gets bigger all the time. The doles and free cheese cause they is entitled to handouts will continue building a class of undereducted self entitled imbeciles who will vote out of fear someone with a stones might get elected and turn off the spigot..see NY voter results..Cuomo is a second generation lefty liberal who hasn't met a barrel of pork he wouldn't poke. The guy as Attorney General had to have a press agent write his briefs on why he decided to no contest cases against the crooks he is replacing including the blind accidenatl governor who could not deliver the racino to Floyd Flake...no matter how hard he paid.We live in a world where education and generational progress has been replaced by off the books corrupt graft. Why work an pay taxes when you can hustle and pay none. Have a bad day hope the check comes..miss a meal eat govt cheese..Flat tax the vermin and we will all be equal..Why equality when entitlement plays so well?

It was a good nite until that useless bastard won in Nevada.I was hoping for a public execution and they give him two more years.

Costa Rica more monkees than people...The Alternative Minimum Tax was levied on the 250k club..Ensuring one will never actually get wealthy. yes the trappings of wealth are there as a reult of hard work and tremendous efforts..there is no rosy outcome for the 250k club..We will all work long past our original retirement expectations..why? because we have paid the tax bill for 97% of the entire country.Our kids will attend colleges at the rate of about 50k per year while kids will sit next to them that are getting money for attending school. They will not qualify for aid or better yet for campus employment due to the crimes of their families work ethic..They will graduate and compete for jobs that they will need to be twice as good at because they are not the in ethnicity at the time..Of course we will also be sending them into a global workforce where outsourcing is vogue. Their ability to purchase homes and live the Ameircan dream is very suspect at this point due to these horrific consequences..1. Being an American...2..Being part of a household viewed as wealthy...3..not being a foreign national...4..not being the ethnicity of the month...5..having a desire to work...

Nancy Pelosi: last night: "We must all strive to find common ground to support the middle class, create jobs, reduce the deficit and move our nation forward." YOU DID NONE OF THIS...YOU BOTOX BOVINE VAGINA!!! Now pack your shit and get the fuck out! And take those ugly curtians with you!

You're of course speaking of the Stautory Rate and not the Effective Rate. The effective tax rates for corporations is substantially lower, somewhere in the area of 22%, making it considerably lower than many European Countries. The jobs leave the country because cheap labor is easy to find and tax codes make it worth the effort to "outsource" these jobs.

Some numbers of interest.....average income of Americans in the bottom 90 percent was grew from $17,719 in 1950 to $30,941 in 1980 -- a 75 percent increase in income in constant 2008 dollars. Since 1980 , the average income of Americans in the bottom 90 percent flat-lined -- going from the $30,941 of 1980 to $31,244 in 2008. During that same time the share of income accruing to America's wealthiest 1 percent rose from 9 percent in 1974 to a tidy 23.5 percent in 2007. Incomes of the very highest earners in the United States, individuals hauling in more than $50 million annually increased fivefold from 2008 to 2009.

So my question is simple......if jobs were lost during the period when Bush's tax cuts were in effect and those at the very top increased their wealth relative to the rest of us, exactly why do they need more help?

I'm just happy Nancy is going to her lose her U.S.A.F. chauffeurs. Those whiskey, champagne, and in-flight lobster tabs going back and forth to California on my dime were pi$$ing me off as well. I despise that woman and those botox shots never helped.

I'll stipulate that you're correct, and go in a nother direction.

What is the goal of a corporation?

Now it will just be a tan guy from Ohio burning up the money.

GOOD! Better than that hag from CALI!

As an Independent I cast no votes yesterday for anybody under the elephant or donkey banners.

The Repubs lost their way with the spending under Bush and then the Dems under the clueless empty-suit community organizer took it to another level.

The entitled handouts have got to stop. As a good American, an old fart, and a veteran I would hate to leave here dead with my son, wife, and grandchildren saddled with enormous debt because of bums, breeders, slackers, and millions of "undocumented workers" sucking on the public teat. And I fully expect to leave here "dead", just like everybody else does sooner or later.

How'd that "Stimulus" work out? Long Island got 300-feet of parkway on-ramp out of the deal while New York State swallowed up hundreds of millions of "scamulus" dollars to plug holes in it's "handout budgets" for both 2009 and 2010.