One positive outcome of raising tax rates on upper brackets is that it discourages sucking obscene amounts of money out of corporations by executives in the form of salary and bonuses and encourages rolling that money back into the business - thus more jobs - thus more taxes.

There are numerous stable economy-stimulating tax policy solutions which could be enacted if the absurd concept of supply side economics was abandoned.

However, as long as the congress is composed of morons there will be a long trail of moronic solutions, each more destructive than the last.

It seems like so little to ask those who have much to at least pay their FAIR share.

It's the only way we'll get people back to work and improve the economy. The people with ALL the money need to put it back into circulation and bring it back into the country they earned it in. Business must be taxed generously, but they must receive breaks for training workers, for hiring workers, and for improving infrastructure. Business uses the roads and bridges and railways and waterways and docks--the wealthy need to contribute like the rest of us to their maintenance and creation.

When their house is on fire, do they not call the fire department? If they have a heart attack, do they not call the EMTs? If their home is broken into, do they not call the police? These are all services paid for by our taxes. We should ALL contribute at the same level/rate. These services are not free, and those with more than the rest of us shouldn't get off the hook.

We didn't vote the million/billionaire into office; this is our Occupy Wall Street moment; this is why we are not in the streets protesting and tarring and feathering the wealthy. We are sick of the rich. We spoke with our vote--that is the mandate.

Listen or continue at your peril, because people will tire of putting their children to bed hungry--this is the seed of the terrorist.

When Ann Romney repeated the word "SERVICE" again and again in that interview on The View, all of the sudden I thought she was trying to say that Mormons do service for our country when they go on their missions.

I asked myself, "Wwhy would I feel this way in response to her words?"

All I could come up with is this question: Do Mormons on "missions" abroad work for the CIA as informants or watchers or messengers or drop points or something?

I would never have thought of that question if Ann Romney had not been so ADAMANT that Mormon missionary work abroad is "SERVICE" EVERY BITequal to that of service in the navy or military.

This article makes me wonder even more. Mormons do seem to be deeply motivated in ways that bring up even more questions.

@Mauiman: Your assumption that the deficit has to be cleared from one year's tax reciepts is typical Fox News mis-information and rubbery figures.

Sorry, these Republican lies and mis-direction attempts just don't wash anymore. Ask Rush for some new talk points.

Republicans crashing the country:

"If they don’t – and if they continue their economy-crashing agenda – then they’re committing political suicide and, tragically, risk taking the country down with them."

Thom: Unfortunately, the Republicans signalled their intent to do exactly this when Obama was first elected. They said they would rather see the country crash than to see Obama succeed. I believe they are willing to make good on their threat. The Republicans no doubt view their actions as those of patriots. I see them as traitors, to their country and to the oath of office they took. They are putting their pledge to Grover Norquist ahead of the interests of the country as a whole.

Do you think anyone maybe should have listened to Ron Paul. Hope This country can be saved from ourself before it is too late. Taxing the rich is not going to be the salvation.

Hold on to your lug nuts, I think it is time for an overhaul. They asked for it and we are going to get it.

The R's are not going to change. It's always their way or the hi-way...even if there were only two in the whole Congress, they'd be this way. Boehner has already said where he stands. They almost seem like traitors.

All I can hope for is that Obama gets a spine and rams this down their throats. Bi-partisanship hasn't worked. Austerity doesn't work, it never has and Greece is proof if you don't want to go back and look at the Great Depression and se what happened when they tried it then with an awful economy.

There are plenty of "shovel ready" jobs out on the East Coast. Let's put people to work instead of taking their last dimes

The game of Monopoly has a few rules but I've never heard a libertarian suggest that those rules be done away with. That suggestion would be blatantly absurd because the game wouldn't work any more. However, they reserve that suggestion for the real world.

Re. values v. demographics in the election:

Two factors that played a part in the Obama win are: 1) The reasonable GOP candidates were weeded out early on in the primary and only the crazies and extreme ideologues were left standing. 2) A caller today mentioned that the welfare queen myth was debunked. A caller on Thom's or another show a while back; ---I think the context was the occupy movement--- said that with the declining middle class, people losing homes, people can't afford health care, etc.; a lot of whites were experiencing or seeing friends and relatives experience, what minorities had had to endure for generations.

Dan, San Diego.

If Romney had won, I would have posted a quote from the Bible on Facebook. I didn't get around to looking it up, but it's the part where the people of Jerusalem ask for Barabbas the criminal instead of Jesus the wiseman.