Why do the liberal protestors think they deserve what successful people have WORKED for?

[camdin90]

they are chanting what they are told to chant. they are tools of the democrat party. the very people that created the joblessness now cheer the protesters. these people have no work ethic. they voted spread the wealth, but that meant destroy the middle class. they voted level the playing field, but that meant no one but unions will have jobs. these are your typical liberals, just like watts, harlem, detroit, dc, oakland, south chicago, they vote as told and their living conditions steadily decline. its a phenomena that has no rational explanation. chanting yes we can, got us 14 trillion in debt. now they think chanting tax the rich is the solution. the sad part is, when the get attack wealth as a policy, they will be classified as wealthy. never have a people chosen to abandon justice when it didnt turn them into savages.

[larenzo]

When we advocate raising taxes on the top 2%, they complain about the 47% of Americans who don't pay taxes. Sigh. They pay lots of taxes: Social Security, sales tax, property tax, etc.; they just don't pay any income tax. They often pay a higher percentage of their income in Social Security taxes than the marginal rate of the wealthy (15.3% vs 15%).

The top 20% control 84% of the wealth.
The bottom 40% control 0.3% of the wealth...and you want them to pay income taxes on what little money they earn?

I am more concerned over the $1 trillion already wasted on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the other $2 trillion on long-term war costs to wind-down our efforts and pay veterans benefits. A total of $3 trillion on getting rid of weapons of mass destruction. Oh, wait! There were no WMDs.

I am more concerned with the $700 billion that we spend annually on the war industrial complex that gives the false promise of security while funding very wealthy defense contractors. Can we cut defense spending just $300 billion, please? That would put us back at 2000 spending levels after adjusting for inflation.

I just identified $6 trillion in savings.