Relentless

Part of our downfall will be people ignoring the big picture while quibbling over 3-5% of something affecting 5% of the population. Citizens United is a much bigger problem than either leaving taxes as they are or raising them by a few points. Wasting a fortune on emergency room care instead of providing efficient single payer care to all costs us much more than income tax revenue would bring back. Not means testing social security at this point will deplete the system for those who actually need it at a much faster rate. We are constantly distracted by trumped up bogus issues like gay marriage, a few points of income tax and the like while a handful of oligarchs are gutting our economy.

It isn't welfare queens, gay people, guys making 250K or <insert race here> who are ruining our country. It is a handful of asshats so high up the totem pole that few outside their circle ever meet them... and they couldn't care less if we all lived in manure pits so long as we keep producing so they can continue tilting the whole thing in their direction to scrape massive profits off the top. Watching you vehemently complain about a few points of income tax is no different than watching gay people focus passionately on issues like don't ask don't tell or gay marriage. Yes, they affect us.... but not as much as the massive problems we face which almost nobody even bothers to discuss. We need to look beyond our own bedrooms and balance sheets at what is really going on and work at fixing the major issues. Until they get resolved we are pissing in a fan. If your taxes get cut 5% and the dollar gets devalued 15% your income tax rate is not your biggest problem.

Citizens united, publicly funded elections, preventing media consolidation, obliterating the entire tax code to make a better one rather than poorly patching this one, ending unnecessary wars, reducing obsolete military funding.... Your passion would serve you better if it helped fixed these issues.