On Oct 3, 7:21*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
Or let's have a rational discussion about taxation.

Turns out that 47% of American households don't pay income tax.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/30/pf/t...axes/index.htm

Some interesting backup data.

http://www.rothcpa.com/misc/20091001-1.gif

http://www.rothcpa.com/misc/20090826-1-thumb.JPG

Here's an intersting comparison of relative federal budget creep vs
average income. *And yes, before you moonbats get all up in arms, a
lot of that was during the BOOOOOOSSSSHHHHH administration so just
keep the discussion on track to what we need to do about it now rather
than what happened yesterday - can't do a freakin' thing about
yesterday. *

http://www.rothcpa.com/misc/20091001-2-thumb.jpg

This is about the continued rapid accelleration of spending that goes
beyond what happened during the BOOOOOSSSSHHH years.

So - what do we do as citizens? *Do we continue down the same path or
do we insist that our Congress critters quit spending our money like
drunken Squids (gratuitous poke at Squids required).

Tom, I think it's good that we look to the past and evaluate the
mistakes, so that we can pick out the best ones, and assure ourselves
to make them in the future.