Well duh, MarkS. It doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to figure out that the 17% of revenue is coming from people who earn poverty level or below incomes. So, considering that, oddly enough, low income and poor income earners will never be able to contribute enough money in taxes to pay for the services you use (like roads, health care, airports, the education system, etc), just who do you suppose we should tax to pay for Star Wars? The war against Iraq? The Homeland Security bureaucracy? The fox at the SEC to guard the henhouse on Wall Street?

The problem with taxing the poor instead of the rich should be obvious shouldn't it? We won't get much in the way of government services from which the corporate welfare entities earn their billions.