President should define fair share

The president's mantra is that the “rich should pay their fair share.” Strange, he never says exactly what that fair share should be, nor do the media ever ask him. So let me pose these questions: The richest one percent of Americans generate 37 percent of all income tax revenues; the top 10 percent generate 67 percent of all income tax revenues. So what's not fair about that? American corporations pay the highest corporate tax rate in the world. That's fair? Almost 90 percent of political campaign donations by TV media employees went to Obama in 2008, that's fair? His favored energy industries (wind, solar, ethanol) get billions in tax subsidies, but the coal and oil industries pay billion in taxes. That's fair? The government confiscates money from people who work and give it to people who don't Is that fair? Responsible people are paying their own mortgages, but we subsidize the irresponsible or deceitful ones who don't pay theirs. That's fair? Forty seven percent of American households pay no federal income tax. Is that fair? Is it fair to compel workers to join a union if they don't want to?

I could go on, but why bother? He won't answer these questions anyhow. Nor will the media types ask him.

Rich Zeis

Walker