Excuse me while I rant

I may offend some but I've got to write this before my head explodes...

Since when is making $250,000 considered wealthy?? I'll venture to guess that many families making that or more is because they are two income families. Is anyone stopping to think that higher taxes will cause families to reassess why both are working? I can easily imagine one income-earner quitting because they are in too high of a tax bracket. If this happens, what happens to the tax revenues that the gov't is counting on and salivating to get their hands on? As it stands, the top 1% of income earners pays 40% of the total taxes. The top 2% pays 62% of the total taxes. Can someone please tell me where is the incentive to be successful? Is the goal to make everyone so strapped that we completely become a welfare state? Is THIS why we fought the American Revolution?? Quit drinking the kool-aid people and wake up!!

This editorial from today's Wall Street Journal offers some facts. Imagine that! The 2% Illusion

In other news, John is about the same, I'm shooting to head to PA March 12th or 13th. John is going to the Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) to be evaluated instead of Allegheny General. They have much more experience in organ transplants. His new appt. is March 18th.