You are NOT totally wrong ,Zimmer..
We do need a better people, more intelligent, better educated....then hopefully, we will have better government AND a better private sector.
Until that time, we need tolerance and understanding....to the max.
Its the people who are the so-called "idiots". Those men who do NOT know how to size a toilet, or few other things as well!
Man, as yet is not smart enough to take good care of himself..
Oh, some of us are, but the vast majority.......no.....
And rather than have a progressive tax, lets regress to the Biblical Days, when all were heavily taxed the same...rich or poor....and think of what these taxes were used for...
I'll take 2010, myself, but things could always be better..The local and school taxes are a killer (1.5 to 4K$, depending on a man's property)....