[TheRealVille]

If it did not feel good to help those in need, then people would not do it. My point is that people do not donate to worthy causes because of tax exemptions, although tax exemptions make it more affordable to donate.

I am not sure how I can make it any more clear. I would deprive anybody who receives more net income from the government than they pay in federal income taxes of the privilege of voting. I would make an exception for the military and probably for retirees who paid into Social Security for their entire lives. The federal government has robbed tens of millions of people through payroll taxes in a Ponzi scheme through no fault of those who thought they were paying into a trust fund.

Here is a link to the numbers that I have posted in this forum many times before. I suggest that you bookmark it and refer to it the next time that Obama, Pelosi, or Reid start blasting the "wealthiest among us" for "not paying their fair share." Notice that people who had adjusted gross incomes of at least $67,280 in 2008 paid 86.34 percent of all federal income taxes paid. Only 1 percent of taxpayers had AGIs of $380,354 or more, yet they paid 38.02 percent of all federal income taxes paid in 2008.

If you study this table, it will be very hard to defend the class warfare that Barack Obama and liberal Democrats will be waging to ride back into office in 2012. The numbers paint a very different picture than the evil rich that Obama demonizes nearly every time that he opens his big mouth. These people have no shame when it comes to stooping low to win elections to high offices.

Middle class.