A forty(40) year old man has his self a small bidness. He is not a corporation, he chooses, right or wrong, to pay his taxes individually. There are a LOT of small bidnesses out there like this. Gonna call our guy Mort. Mort has a little machine shop. Mort the Machinest, Machinest Mort. Mort is single and makes exactly $200k/year. Mort is in the highest tax bracket, right now Mort pays $70k a year in income taxes. Slowbama, the half-breed stuttering muslim wants to raise taxes on Mort, as Mort doesn't pay his fair share. If Slow gets his way Mort will pay $79.2k in income taxes. Mort employs three dudes, Tom, skeptic and Harry in Mort's Machine Shop. Each of these guys makes $50K/year. Each of these guys pays $7.5k in taxes/year. Grand total of income taxes paid by everyone at Mort's Machine Shop is $95.2k/year. Mort's Machine shop make a profit of $400k/year, hence the saleries. If Mort has to buy sumpin, that comes outta Mort's salery. Every time skeptic breaks a bit, cause skeptic is a friggin moron, Mort has to replace that bit outta his own salery. A bit can easily cost a grand. Mort understands that he has to pay for these things, Mort is a bidnessman, Mort is a conservative, a Libertarian, in fact, a Perfect Libertrain, a consequential Libertarian, a Neil Boortz Libertarian, a teacher Libertarian, and Mort does not bemoan his poor self when he has to replace a skeptic destroyed bit, Mort assumes the risks. The cost of doing bidness. This risk/reward American/capitalist system is why Mort is in the highest tax bracket. Mort lives in a nice house, dirve a nice truck that he also uses for his bidness. Mort belongs to a semi-upper class country club. Mort works 60-80 hours a week and Mort feels that his hard work and risk entitles his self to some perks. Who is say that he doen't deserve these things? So Mort's bidness is doing okay, he's paying the bills, paying the taxes, paying the saleries for Tom, skeptic and Harry, he's paying for is idiot employee sleptic's bit destroying behavior. Mort's Machine Shop is standing pat at a $400k/year profit. But Mort is greedy. Mort wants to expand. Mort plays golf with Mitt, Mitt has kitchen sink assembly bidness. Mitt buys a certain part for one of his sinks from a black guy, said black guy, Leroy, is stiffing Mitt on the price of the part. Now, said part can't be manufactured by Mort, Mort needs a certain machine to fabricate this part and Mort ain't got it. This machine costs $9.2k. Mort can decide to invest in Mort's Machine Shop but Mort likes his lifestyle and Mort is worried that Slow is gonna raise Mort's personnel income taxes/year by, you guessed it, $9.2k. Mort is uncertain of his finacial future expences cause Slow is dicking around with the economy, not doing as a President should do and lettin everyne know what is coming down the pike. Giving the bidnessman certainty is not high on Slow's to do list. Personally, Mort the Machinest feels that Slow is doing his upmost to destroy capitalism so that he can say "see, capitalism doens't work, lettuce try socialism/communism/Marxism/statism", but that is neither here nor there. Now, dues at Mort's country club cost/year, you guessed it, $9.2k/year. Like I said, Mort likes his greedy, capitalist fueled lifestyle. Under Slow's plan Mort is not gonna give up his Sunday golf outing with Mitt to expand his bidness. Mitt's just gonna have to do what Mitt always does, fire some people and outsource to the Chinese. Greedy little Mitt. All of a sudden Mort hears that there is a guy running again Slow that will not raise Mort's taxes. (We gonna put aside that said guy actually want to LOWER Mort's taxes if elected). Word on the street is that this guy is 5/4 in favour of gettin elected. Mort the Machinest rolls the die and buys his new machine that will get him a new contract with Mitt the sink maker. Mort now has more work that he can handle, so he has to hire a new guy, Marchimedes. Bidness is good, matter of fact it's so good Mort give his self a HUGE raise. He also gives all his employees a huge raise. Mort now pays himself $300k/year, and his now four(4) employees now all make $75k/years. Mort's machine Shop now pays in federal income taxes $230k/year. Mort's Machine Shop used to pay $95.2k/year. Remember, Mort's employees have jumped up a tax bracket so they now pay a higher percentage. Is that fair? Same guys, same job, but that is neither here not there. This is called trickle down economics. Yes, Lucy, there are ramifications to raising taxes on the so-called rich. Also, Mort gets a general good feeling from the local community cause he employs the bit destroying retard skeptic. Remember, now, that Mort, Tom, skeptic, Harry and Marchimedes also now all pay more into SSI, state/local taxes, sales taxes, they all get more betterer rides, they spend more on the local economy, friggin skeptic now pays his retard nephew, dano bivins to mow his lawn, who in turn takes said lawn cash and and buys gum to mix with his lead paint chips, Tom starts seeing the local whore, Isabel, twice the week now, Harry smoke more weed, which makes him buy more Nintendo games and Marchimedes self publishes a book titled "How to build a pyramid", wins the Nobel prize for just being able to point out the friggin obvious and takes the ensuing cash and buys some dog and pony show internet political debate web site and makes lowrent admin who is so busy banning KingBlam that he forgets to eat or smoke for weeks at time and turns out to live to be 127 years old and crap I grow bored.