Raise taxes on the rich on one condition and even then ...

While I fully recognize the US is not undertaxed at any class level, liberals in this country seem obsessed with sticking it to the rich in this country. While there are circumstances where some are withheld from reaping the benefits of what the US offers, most are in poverty due to their own choices. I don't lightly or hard-heartedly berate the poor, but the fact is almost all have opportunity in this country to be anything they want to be if they work and apply themself. Almost all who don't make good choices end up in a lower class income situation. Most who make good choices have a good income level all the way up to extreme wealth. Liberals always want policies that reward those who make poor choices and punish those who make good choices.

For years liberals have been inciting class warfare against the rich by claiming they don't pay their fair share. While a modest progressive tax may make sense, asking for 40% or more of anyone's income is confiscatory and punitive. In addition, the claim that the rich don't pay their fair share has been blown away as seen on Rush Limbaugh's website that shows the top 50% wage earners pay 96.54% of all taxes and the top 1% wage earners pay 34.27% of all taxes. If this is not paying your fair share I don't know what is!

While I would fight any tax hike tooth and nail, if the liberals were bound and determined to steal more from the rich and had the votes to do it there is one compromise I would entertain. In exchange for raising taxes on high income individuals, I propose we irradicate ALL corporate taxes across the board. Hang on liberals, don't leave yet! When you think about it, corporations are not people they are pieces of paper; a legal entity. Why should the corporation pay taxes? Because "they" make a lot of money? They don't think or act or do anything; "they" are simply a container, a shell. Taxes should only come from individuals.

Corporations are opportunity centers that give individuals the chance to make a living and/or create wealth. So much energy is focused on sheltering wealth from taxes by this loophole or that instead of doing what they are supposed to be doing. If no taxes are levied against corporations, what will be done with that money? Anything done with the money will almost inevitably become a taxable event:

• By spending it on the companies needs and investing in itself, corporations can expand to provide more jobs
• By providing dividends to investors and owners, a taxable event is created and the money is taxed at the end level
• Even if it is held as cash for a future need, eventually it will either be spent or distributed

Whether used as a bargaining chip as described above or not, this is the right thing to do. The economy would soar in this environment and tax revenues would skyrocket.