taxed.

what if, instead of saying some people get taxed too much, we asked what people got paid too much for what they actually do? seems that would take care of the tax question. instead, we have politicians of the right and the left fighting over how to make government smaller and even more inefficient, while increasing their pay scales for doing what would seem to be proportionally less work, no? meanwhile, the uber-rich get more in tax breaks than the rest of the population combined, but somehow, that's still not fair, and what we really care about is the 1-2 percent of the national budget we're spending on social welfare, which includes, by the way, paying for the unemployment that is a result of the excesses of those who own capital in squeezing more and more production out of fewer and fewer workers. interesting. these are no longer just u.s. questions - the social democratic countries lefty americans love are succumbing to the forces of the eu, the forces of globalization, the forces of multinational, transnational corporations, revealing a less than stellar commitment to the actual people who comprise labor parties who ostensibly are represented in parliaments amongst some of the largest european countries. progress keeps trucking along, leaving hordes of people in its wake.