Certain politicians are all gung-ho about taxing the “wealthy†– i.e. those making over $250k/yr.
It struck me that this would hit most if not all congressmen/women right in the kisser. My feelings that politicians are often the last to get screwed, or screw themselves, I enquired a bit and came across the following article.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Nancy Pelosi was emphatic. Mitt Romney's refusal to release more than two years of his personal tax returns, she said, makes him unfit to win confirmation as a member of the president's Cabinet, let alone to hold the high office himself. Sen. Harry Reid went farther: Romney's refusal to make public more of his tax records makes him unfit to be a dogcatcher.
They do not, however, think that standard of transparency should apply to them. The two Democratic leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives are among hundreds of senators and representatives from both parties who refused to release their tax records. Just 17 out of the 535 members of Congress released their most recent tax forms or provided some similar documentation of their tax liabilities in response to requests from McClatchy over the last three months. Another 19 replied that they wouldn't release the information, and the remainder never responded to the query.
There is more to the article at the following link; but it is a pretty long article: mcclatchydc.com
Lying, theiving, bastards and bitches.
At least we get something in return when dancers take our money.