Everybody in America is getting poorer, except for the rich. While the rest of us pay to keep our infrastructure and commons working, the rich spend their money figuring out how to avoid taxes. And, from personal experience I know that they do cheat. So we are paying for their war, their road repair, their amenities that the rest of us also have, but they don’t want to contribute their fair and equal part. If the corporations and rich threaten to move offshore, well, they've already done that to our workforce, what else can they do? Screw ‘em. If they do not want to participate in our growing Democracy (Republic), then good riddance. Let us tax offshore multinationals at a far greater rate than American companies. Punitively. Locally, we need sliding scale DMV fees. If you buy an efficient car, then you should pay no fees. If you buy a jackrabbit-start, high horsepower go-fast car so that you can get to the next stoplight first, then you should pay at least double the current rate. To buy a car that does 140 out-the door, to use in city is pretty bogus. Let’s tax on fuel economy, not zip. Fuel economy is real, Zip is nada. It is time to speak of a temporary tax on gas, to give our cities the necessary funds to fix our traffic lights. You know what I mean…. What do taxes give us? Roadways, courts, streetlights, stoplights, police protection, fire protection, the military, public airways, protection against mega-corporations, libraries, schools, fallout shelters (ooops, wrong generation…), and our government. I am proud to pay my taxes, because it helps support our country. We should all be proud and willing to help our commonality.