Recent polls (in which Bush keeps sliding lower) also tell us that a majority of Americans think the Bush tax cut is the wrong direction for the country to go in to solve our current economic problems. When asked, they say they don't believe they are paying too much money in taxes--for the first time since polling began.

So if people are finally catching on that it takes tax dollars to pay for the services we all have grown accustomed to expecting our government to provide for us, then perhaps we will soon (within the next election cycle or two perhaps?) see a return to the true center in American political and economic life--a center where we truly balance what we get for what we pay.

Wealthy people don't need tax cuts, or government services. They are wealthy, and can afford to pay for anything they want or need. That isn't true for the rest of us, and it is we who are the majority in this country, and in every country. We are the ones who benefit from a strong, fair, and accessible health care system, from public education, etc. not the wealthy.

And don't even get me going on the Enrons that don't pay a dime in taxes to support the society from which they reap their obscene and illegal profits.