Frank, I agree wholeheartedly. But what is fair? This is getting a little of from my original point but...There are three groups of people in this country, the poor (however you define it), the middle class (whatever that is these days) and those that don't fit in your definition of the first two groups. The democrats claim to represent the poor and the republicans claim to represent the middle class. The reality is that both do neither. Democrats will tell you the way to true fairness is to raise taxes on the income of high earners. The republicans will tell you true fairness is to lower the taxes on everyone. Well the reality is raising or lowering income taxes is moot in terms of fairness because the highest earners are never going to pay their fair share through income tax because they have very little in income relative to what they are actually worth. And any plan that would attempt to do so would be disastrous for all earners. Out of characters, so I guess we'll solve it later.