The past "everyone gets a cut" have given the ultra-rich billions of dollars, and the rest of us a pittance.

If that money actually encouraged "investment in business", which is what they used to say to justify trickle down economics, or to get those "job creators" to create jobs, as they have re-branded the same ol'[Bleeeeep!] this time around, then I'd be willing to listen to what the Republicans have to say...unfortunately it's not that they are not talking about changes, it's even worse than that, they're talking about either continuing or going back to the already discredited bullschit that's failed before, for the past 31 years.

As with many things, the saddest part is that 99% of the right wingers who will vote for it are voting directly against their own well being.

The only non-ultra rich who benefit from those past policies, and those being proposed by the Republicans right now, are high end yacht builders and McMansion construction companies...for the other 99% of us it's just bleeding us and the country dry and putting it further and further into the pockets of the 1%.

Want to change the tax code so that it will actually provide benefits to the public and the economy?

Re-write the tax code so that it makes it economically incentivized to invest money in the business, to innovate, and to hire people, rather than as it is now, which incentivizes huge CEO pay and stockholder value.

Unfortunately you won't likely see people from either party seriously propose that, as people believe the crap about the "free market" and "job creators" too much to actually think about it.

George W. Bush proved, twice, the value in not being smarter than the electorate...don't try to explain actual economics or public policy that might help the country, you'll just be branded an "intellectual elite" by some fuckin fool on the other side, and it will get electoral traction.

Idiots like being told that they are right, and that everything is not only simple, but that it's just like they think...then those idiots will elect a pretend idiot who will milk the idiots for all their worth, along with everyone else, while telling them that it's rain that's running down their leg...

Fish on...

Todd