Serious question about the "top earners"?

They want to tax those that make over $250,000 a year, and treat everyone that makes that much as if they are "evil" and "Big Corporate America". I'm sorry, but $250,000 a year is not "Big Corporate America", and is not really a lot of money if you are self employed or a small business owner. You just don't have the benefits that people at other jobs who work for "Big Corporate America" enjoy. You don't get paid vacation. You don't have your employer paying a majority of your health insurance premiums. You don't get STD/LTD paid for (in whole or partial). You don't get company paid life insurance. All this you have to pay for out of your own pocket, along with maybe even adding more back into the company. And now, you have a bunch of liberals running around saying that you must be "punished" for making this amount of money.

If you really want to "stick to the rich", close the loopholes they use. Everyone complains about how they don't pay their fair share, but they leave all these loopholes wide open for the rich to take advantage of. Does that make them "evil"? No. It makes them as evil as you driving the speed limit on the highway. They are following the laws as the lawmakers have written them. Nothing evil about it at all.

Class warfare and blaming others for problems is a very old tactic of politicians.

There is nothing evil or greedy about being successful, and determining what is a fair share to pay in taxes is always used as a weapon against those more successful people.

If you look closely at the people in Washington that claim to be a friend to the poor people and want to punish the rich, they are very rich themselves, but only want the other rich to pay more.

I think they take less abuse because they feel somehow the pitcher is contributing to their quality of life. Entertainment has value that is easily seen. Where someone that lives 1500 miles away, never met or seen and you don't understand what their value is gets picked on. It's the same concept of a board room deciding too lay off 20% of their workforce too increase their stock price. They don't perceive the employees as having any value either. Yet the executive sitting in the same room with them that will pick up a nice percentage of the employees misery has value.

We also pay for that pitcher directly with watching his games, free will. Where as the wealthy if we choose not too support them taking money from us get it anyway.

I don't look down on anyone who makes millions. I just want them to pay their fair share of taxes

The left has a warm spot for anyone who gets something-for-nothing.

Not that they make a million but as CEO's it's what they do to ravage workers and their rights take Wal-Mart for example.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=walmar...