I agree with President Obama that they will "begin to pay their fair share". I do not see the rich going from the party they have had these many years to where they should be in any single act. It will be a process and it is starting off in the right direction. More work to be done, no doubt but I am pleased with this beginning.

Like rMoney - and the growing millionaire/billionaire class that makes money off financial schemes and overseas slave labor - money they keep overseas that remains untaxed and unaccounted for.

They make it on investments and "carried interest" which I don't totally understand. The capital gains rate needs to go higher. It used to be at 28%

But with the new congress if they want to make larger steps they need to change the filibuster rules. If not, more of the same.

But there are a lot of loopholes and subsidies and such that should be done away with. Capital gains taxes should be higher. The inheritance tax should be higher as well.

I know they mean taxes when they say "paying their fair share" but I also think that most of the rich should be paying their employees better, too, if our economy is to prosper. They need to nix the idea that they're entitled to cheap labor.

Ok, here is a test. Did you see words in my subject line or just six periods?

Capital gains needs to be 30% or more if you want to make this stuff matter.

live in poverty. This society is marked by incredible levels of cruelty and brutality towards its most vulnerable citizens.

Dems and Rape-publi-scum are both bourgeois parties who couldn't give a flying fuck about the working class and working poor. They're both playing for the same team and that's not my team.