I STRONGLY DISAGREE with everything you just said there. And I can't help but wonder where your sources from which you have drawn your information come of, and how reliable you actually are if you didn't even capitalize the first word of your response and forgot the period at the end, and well as lacking all commas and doing nothing hurling crap at those who disagree with you. FIRST OF ALL -- raising taxes on the RICH will HURT THE WORKING CLASS MORE THAN IT WILL HURT THE RICH! Because guess who hires 95 percent of the workers in this world? THE FREAKING RICH! So if you take away…  Read more more of their money from them -- when an astronomical 37% is ALREADY being stolen from their wallets -- then they will not have the money to hire more people, they will not have the money to give their employees more benefits, to improve working conditions, and to create new products, jobs, and innovations. So what's going to happen is if you raise tax rates on the poor you are going to increase unemployment, either that OR reduce wages and benefits (BUT MOST LIKELY BOTH). So you're going to DECREASE THE STANDARD OF LIVING FOR THE VERY WORKING CLASS YOU CLAIM TO WANT TO HELP! And let me tell you that the "poor beggars" who you so sympasize with are in fact LIVING LIKE KINGS compared to just TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO -- guess what brought their standards of living, wages, and benefits up? CAPITALISM, BABY! So you, stop to think, "stupid," and consider for just two FREAKING SECONDS THE SERIOUS HARM YOUR TAXES WELL DO ON MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES AND, YES, "POOR BEGGARS" too!