Depends on the purpose of the taxes. You are a small business and are thinking on that scale. Billions of our tax dollars are awarded corporate America commonly under the guise of "creating jobs". So, one could twist that into "taxes are good" "raising taxes will create jobs". If taxes are for providing health care then it just might lower your health care burden as a business. Myself I feel I pay way too much in taxes and big business pay's way too little. I feel there are too many loop holes and deductions for everybody but me it seems. But I'm not dumb enough to not think we won't have to all pay the piper due to a completely inept administrtation and it's policies.

Numbers do lie....the middle class has been under attack. Yes they do use the same way of figuring. A job is a job. They don't account for the fact that decent wage jobs have disappeared and have been replaced with just above poverty level wages. Add rampant inflation and the devaluation of the dollar and it's not a pretty picture. Why should we care if a small business, run by someone who supports this climate, goes out of business? You can find another job just like anyone else right?

Impeach Bush? That's only a start. I want him tried for treason. And it has little to do with Katrina but I think you need to do your homework. The rebuilding was a sham full of no-bid contracts. Do a search. Katrina is but one of an almost near perfect score of complete incompetence, failures and down right treasoness actions in my book.

The tanker bid I think should have factored in what country our tax dollars are going to benefit which it didn't. Would a factor of that sort have changed the outcome? Who knows. But it's pretty eye opening to see our military awarding contracts for equipment to foreign entities. Maybe the failures of KBR and Halliburton have soured them on quasi-U.S. corporations?