Tax:

[rayheinrich]

Yes, the taxes are killing us.

That "us" is the middle-class and the poor. The upper-incomes
and corporations aren't "us" and have never considered themselves
such (or the citizens of any country, especially any country that
tries to practice democracy). They have succeeded in the lobbying
and the outright buying of our elected officials who have killed
(that word again) most of the progressiveness in our current
system of income taxes and at the same time have shifted more
tax revenues into regressive taxes like sales taxes and fees which
take a much higher percentage of income from lowers (us) than
from uppers. Undocumented workers are doubly screwed as they
have to pay these taxes but don't receive much of their benefits.

Back to the 1800's and before...