Take away the top 2% and see how many jobs you have left. England and a host of liberal European countries tried to shift the tax burden to the "rich" and look what happened to them. More off shore companies than on shore and a host of dodges to avoid taxes at all. They tried to socialize medicine and the rich got health care elsewhere and the middleclass and poor where left with avg care. What is that old saying those that forget histories lessons are condemned to repeat the mistakes. We can look at what Kerry is doing with Iraq and its the same thing he did with Vietnam. His tax and spend programs have been tried in Europe for 70 years and have driven it in the dumper while we grew like a madman.