Romney DESERVES to pay a smaller tax rate for his income than you or I do.

That's what the Republicans mean isn't it?  They may not say it, but that's precicely what they mean.  And they do mean it.  It's not that they haven't thought about it that way.  They believe that money is worth twice as much as labor. 

I don't.

Republicans argue that they take a risk with their money.  And that's why they deserve a bigger break when they "win", which they call earning, not winning.  But, labor takes a risk when they invest their time/labor.  Sometimes we don't get paid when we work.  Employers go bankrupt; Some unscrupulous employers can, but don't pay employees...close their doors and reopen somewhere else; sometimes industries colapse (buggy manufacturing, typewriter manufacturers, etc.) and people who invested their youth in learning to apply themselves in those fields lost their investment, although the business investors may have sold their investment and reinvested in making cars or computers, etc.  Money can adjust ever so much more rapidly than labor to market forces.  Investors have a say in the decisions that can make or break a business, even decisions to pay or not pay employees; Workers (in the U.S.) have no say and don't necessarily if they'll still have a job tomorrow, or next week, next month or... . 

If risk were able to be objectively weighed in some fashion, I suspect labor would be determined to be a riskier factor than investment capital.  But that isn't how risk is valued here...now...is it?  You know why?

Because the investor class has engaged in a long term and very successful campaign to rig the tax code by buying political influence and writing the rules their paid for legislators enact.  And those rules are protected by the groomed Supreme Court whose majority was appointed by the Presidents they paid for.  It's all very legal. 

You see, America's for sale.  Capitalism is a more important system to Americans than Democracy or a Democratic Republic.  Isn't Capitalism our true form of political system in America today.  A few determined and greedy men have changed America from the inside, and not in a good way.

But, then haven't we stood idly by?