*Data covers calendar year 2003, not fiscal year 2003
- and includes all income, not just wages, excluding Social SecurityThink of it this way: less than 3-1/2 dollars out of every $100 paid in income taxes in the United States is paid by someone in the bottom 50% of wage earners. Are the top half millionaires? Noooo, more like "thousandaires." The top 50% were those individuals or couples filing jointly who earned $29,019 and up in 2003. (The top 1% earned $295,495-plus.) Americans who want...

Here?s another example: ?A self-taught bear expert who once called Alaska's brown bears harmless was one of two people fatally mauled in a bear attack in an Alaskan national park." Here's a bear expert who said that brown bears were harmless. He's now dead, killed by bears. If a bear had a daily calendar, it would read: ?Wake up, kill something, eat it, take a nap, find something else, kill it, eat it...? A caller cited a lot of stuff this guy said on his website, and I?m sure he believed it. ...

If the Democrats were really interested in revenue pouring in, they'd continue to cut taxes, they'd lower the capital gains rate or get rid of it altogether, and they'd be back to their precious little surplus projection days. But that's not what they're really interested in. They're interested in class warfare and getting you to hate the rich. They want you thinking the rich aren?t suffering while everybody else is. They want you thinking the rich are causing all this so that you'll vote for...