Laura Occasionally Blogs

From a Washington Post article on the President Obama's proposal to increase taxes on the top brackets and lower taxes on the lower brackets, beginning in 2011:

Few analysts dispute the notion that the gap between rich and poor has widened to a troubling degree over the past three decades. But measures that use the tax code to fix this problem may carry their own risks. Republicans and other critics argue that Obama's plan would punish success and stifle the very kind of spending that would foster investment and economic growth.

Oh, boo hoo! PEOPLE WON'T WANT TO BECOME RICH ANYMORE!

I love watching rich people scrape up bottom-of-the-barrel excuses for keeping the terrible terrible status quo (except when they get away with it).