TEA'd off!

Welcome to what I hope will be the first of many blog posts. I confess to listening to LOTS of news, mostly on the radio (I can't remember the last time I watched the news on TV though), and reading numerous web sites, mostly of the conservative variety. I think the media is increasingly trying to portray this country as hopelessly divided, left and right, democrat or republican, Bush-haters and Obama haters, conservative and liberal. I think it is much more complicated than that, however. This only serves to distract normally intelligent people from solutions. Sometimes things are just wrong, and need to be pointed out. Which brings me to the subject of my first post: Tea parties.
Yesterday was an amazing day, in my opinion. It has been quite a long time since I have seen so many people gather together for a common purpose, telling the tax and spend government that enough is enough! The media likes to portray these tea parties as some fringe, anti government movement (if you want to know what I mean, check out this), but I think they are very wrong. And, I think Americans have a right to be protest the unchecked spending, unheard of increases in the national debt, and the tax hikes that surely must follow to pay for all of this. Liberals in Congress are working overtime to absolve as many voters as possible for paying any income tax at all, and taxing the remaining productive members of society to death to pay for it all.
I will leave you with a few numbers to think about: If you make over $92,000 (approximately), you are in the top 10% of wage earners in the country. Congratulations! To reward your hard work, production and long work hours, you get to pay 72.4% of the total taxes collected by the government! If you are in the bottom 60% of wage earners, you make (as a group) 26% of all income, but pay only 6% of the total taxes collected by the federal government. I think if I was in the first group, I might be looking at ways to move to the second group.
Luckily, there is a solution.... FairTax anyone?