All you right wingers have it all wrong as usual. You seem to be spewing the same old tired and specious rants about 'big government' is the boogie man, following the specious Ronald Reagan slogan "..government is the problem" which is his simple minded conclusion to everything.
I am absolutely for capitalism and a market economy. A system that provides sufficient and adequate profit incentive to create, invent, to operate efficiently, to innovate, to produce needed commodities, to efficiently allocate capital and resources, and even to grow your business is what an economic system and a society absolutely needs. BUT, there is something that you right wing hobbits have to understand, and that is that our current economy has a massive flaw which is the nature of capitalism by default. Even your mercenary guru Milton Friedman admitted that and so did Adam Smith. That flaw is that capitalism and market economies result in boom and bust cycles and a lopsided concentration of wealth and income at the very top. In fact, the USA is the second worst country in the world on the latter.
The top 1% own 34% of the country's wealth, the top 10% own over 71% of the wealth, the top 15% own 85% of the country's wealth and the bottom 60% own only 4% of the wealth and the bottom 40% own less than 1% of the wealth.
Now, if you think that is wonderful and that income taxes aught to lowered in spite of the truth, then you are as dumb as the people that voted for George Bush twice and feel that Sarah Palin would make a fine president.
BTW, all you 'cons' do not realize that the actual distribution of wealth happens early on in the economic process. Just as an example, everytime a surgeon gets $6,000 for a three hour heart operation, that's a distribution of the patient's wealth. Every time you pay $150 for a professional basketball game's tickets, that's a distribution of your wealth, everytime you pay a CPA $350 to do a simple itemization on your 1040, that's an inequitable distribution of your wealth, every time you pay an attorney $400 an hour for his time, that's a distribution of your wealth. Every time you pay $200 to go to a rock concert, that is an inequitable distribution of your wealth. Every time you pay $90 for a prescription medication that is sold in Europe or Canada for $20 USD, that's a distribution of your wealth. And, every time you got a $100,000 home loan that was packaged in a mortgage backed security that was sold to an investor for $120,000, that was a distribution of your wealth.
There are many, many more examples of the distribution of wealth that the common Republican does't get. Actually, it happens to a greater extent in the aggegate in the many small things that we pay for such as cable TV, cell phone service, and internet service or when you pay $3.50 for a box of crackers at Vons instead of $2.50 at Trader Joe's.
If you argue with what I say because you feel your "freedom" to be swindled is being attacked, and you buy all the right wing tripe that all your 'con' pundits keep telling you (verbatim it seems), then you are supporting an agenda that is absolutely against your own best interest (but then again, you probably voted for George Bush twice, like Wanda Sykes said after he falsely led us into an unfounded and deficit building war with Iraq that unnecessarily killed over 3,000 American soldiers and over 10's of thousands of innocent Iraqis, "you knew he was stupid when you voted for him").
Review the stats that I cited above and contemplate where you fit in the prosperity pie. Explain to me why the existing lopsided concentration of wealth and income is good and just for the country.
