Be careful what you highlight.

For the last few weeks Mitt Romney was getting slammed for paying 15% income tax when by all accounts his "income" should have put him in the top class. However, what seems to be left out was the additional 15% or so that Romney paid in Capital Gains on investments; while still quite lower than he should have paid, it is legit. So when this came out Liberals pounced on Romney highlighting how he doesn't pay taxes like 'regular folks' and needs to pay is 'fair share'.

Well then, yesterday, the other shoe dropped. Obama's tax returns were made public and it was found that he paid a mere 20% in income tax. And what's worse, his Presidential Secretary who makes less than 100K a year, paid higher income taxes than the President. Ugh, so now the political spin machine has some 'splanin' to do. For someone so hell bent on the term fair share, the President certainly isn't paying his. I myself found my income in the 28% tax bracket this year and Mr. Obama makes vastly more than I do. I find it funny that the CNN's of the world are barely talking about this. Shouldn't all Citizens be outraged? Why does America always come down to left vs right? Sad really.

The fact of the matter is that the tax code in the US is absurd and needs completely rewritten. We have a tax code that is over 10 times the size of the Constitution. Scrap it and lets write it over again.

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