Did you seriously not read anything that was posted above? 

This right here explains it all col.  You obviously have not read anything that was posted to you.  How do you talk about reality when people here have just answered your questions, but you continue to ignore them like they don't exist.

You keep focusing on your obsession with Bush, and ignoring whats been posted.  Amazing.

Once again you can't grasp the fact that you don't understand what the wealthy do with their money.  Who are you to tell someone they don't need the money?  Did you not see it explained to you how that money that you think they don't need is investged into businesses and jobs? 

Are you jealous of wealthy people?  Is there were your hatred comes from? 

This is why I no longer bother to go out and meticulously document my evidence to support my arguments when talking to Gene. He just ignores what is posted.

I'll simply repost what I said above since he ignored it:

Like many middle-class people, you really don't have any idea how "rich people" spend money.  We invest it.  You are correct that a tax hike wouldn't affect my quality of life one iota. But it would affect other people's quality of life.  Perhaps you would like to choose wich people I'd lay off due to a tax hike.  That's the real cost of tax increases. 

The Bush tax-cuts allowed me to keep enough of what I produced in order to hire two more web developers. One of the things they created was JoeUser.com.  Without the Bush tax cut, there'd be no JoeUser.com.  That wasn't the only results of those tax cuts. As we've grown, I've hired more people who have created mroe things, things that generate more money which in turn produces more tax revenue for the government.

Raise taxes and my costs go up proportionately. I then cut costs in the form of jobs. But not just me, but thousands of other businesses around the country do the same thing.

Rich people are rich because they use their money to create even more wealth. The government acts as a brake on this economic engine. It is no where near as effective at producing jobs and growth as people like I am.

Tax hikes aren't about making people like me not be able to afford diamond studded keyboards or whatever. You'll find that the average person like me lives not that much differently than other people. The difference is how we use the money we earned -- to do more of what we're doing.

It is better to invest in things that work than to invest in things that don't work or don't work as well.  People who produce wealth are better at it than people who don't.  That wealth helps everyone.  Last year I created around 20 new jobs just in my own company and probably nearly that many outside the company due to things we did. 

Translation (Blah blah blah blah.) (Covers ears) (blah blah).  Facts, reason, thought. These things are foreign to you. You just ignore all the evidence and other points of view to keep spewing everything.

You make claims but fail to back them up. ("the economy sucks for the 'average' working family, poor, and retired).  No surveys. No polls. No evidence. Just a statement as if repeating something you make up makes it so.

Guess what happens to JU when/if tax goes up? It's gone. It becomes a private site. Why? Because it will most definitely eliminate at least one or two jobs.  So ironically, if you were to get your way, your blog would come to an end here.

Let me be very clear: Raising taxes on the top 10% will raise my costs enough to have to eliminate jobs. That's what tax increases do in the real world. They take capital from the people who make things to squander on government waste.  JoeUser.com's open nature ends when the tax cuts get rolled back (or at the very least, users will have to pay to keep their blogs).