Tea Partiers and Republicans are screaming bloody murder about the possibility of marginal income taxes being raised from 35% to 39%....

uh, the taxes are not "being raised"- only restored to the level they were before the disastrous BuShite Tax Cuts wch rather than helping the economy (remember VooDoo Economics?), put the economy into the crapper its now in.

U.S. Citizens pay the lowest taxes of of any country in the industrialized world; ca 14% of GDP, down from 21% during the Clinton administration and many times lower than in the decades of the 1950's and 1960's.

Its LONG past time they stopped whining.