Stink - The people you refer to did NOT have their property tax rates INCREASED to the point where they had to leave their homes... and that's my point. They FAILED to plan for payment of property taxes after they retired. Property taxes aren't what Krijacks' analogy described either. It was the 'rich' being taxed out of their homes in general. THAT'S what I asked him to provide one example of.

Wntrrn - The Teabaggers are screamin' about being over taxed... but the reality is that Federal taxes are the lowest they've been in more than 60 years! How do you 'splain that?

Property taxes are a state/local thing also... so ya can't go blamin' Obama and the Democrats in Congress for that. Plus, if anything, people's assessments have gone DOWN to reflect the current market value of the property.

I agree that spending is high... but I believe that it is necessary right now to keep our economy afloat. Inflation is NOT on the rise and the deficits will reduce as the economic stimulation brings more tax revenue into the federal coffers.

Now is NOT the time to suddenly stop the social spending. For every dollar that is spent by the feds as unemployment payments for instance... a dollar fifty is returned. Those people spend 100% of that money stimulating their local economies, which in turn keeps more people employed. It's all cyclical. The less money that people spend the more the economy slows, which results in more people being laid off etc.

The federal tax increase that will result from allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire is 3.5% to those making more than $200,000 a year. The marginal rate will return to 39%. Still far LOWER than it was when Reagan took office.

You folks on the right talk about being over taxed and tipping points being reached... but the FACTS just do not bear this out. WHY is that?

I wish just for once you all could be intellectually honest and just say "I don't give a rat [censored] about anybody else. I got mine and I'll be damned if'n anybody's gonna take it away from me."

I'd respect you a lot more.