Government data, after all, is government data, and that analysis came from the government as well, rather than from a partisan think tank (for example, CBO reports won't contain references to "Keynesian fallacies" funny how much better the economy ran for us and the world when we observed such fallacious rules. )

If Gates or Buffet handed in their resignations tomorrow they'd still be able to have pretty much whatever they wanted for the rest of their lives. Ted Turner didn't have to sit down with his accountants and go over his expenses before he gave the UN a billion dollars, he just did it, knowing he'd never feel the loss. Yet you're trying to tell me we need to go after the destitute people working two jobs just to break even while people like Turner and Buffet are openly stating they should be paying more tax (though they aren't stupid enough to volunteer the difference while their fellow billionaires refuse. )

Get with the times; if you really want to break the backs of the working poor that badly every far right conservative knows it's much quicker and easier to do it with a federal sales tax than by changing the income tax code.