High-Earning Households Pay Growing Share of Taxes - WSJ.com

High-Earning Households Pay Growing Share of Taxes - WSJ.com

Part and parcel to the above is that the country should be talking honestly about the employment situation - i.e. there is low unemployment for those with skills and an education.

Likewise, we've allowed overpaid teachers unions with restrictive educational mandates to degrade the educational system that is an absolute pre-requisite for better paying jobs. The number of anti-job policies from both parties is a very long list.

It's too bad an honest discussion of what could be done to improve the economy doesn't take on some of the sacred cows of the right (anti-immigrant, religious right, etc.) and the left (too much socialism, too little accountability, regulatory and tax policies, etc.).

We need to make America the place people want to live in to start and make prosperous businesses.

The disconnect is that many people feel this to be the case wherein the factual evidence is just the opposite.

As such, people can't make informed decisions because the politicians and media are insidiously undereducated.

Thus, the old Mark Twain saying, ""It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."