Dude, you are so far out there. Combined, my wife and I make in the upper ranges. We don’t get tax shelters or many benefits. We work hard, and we have skills that employers are willing to pay for. Yet we’re soaked in taxes, and we don’t even own a home. I have very little idea of how to shield my income from these 45% tax rates. I own a Ford and a Chevy, not a Mercedes and BMW.
Blanket statements like “rich people” are all crooked are like saying “poor people” are all lazy. Neither are true.
How much someone else makes is frankly none of your business, and should be none of Obama’s business, as long as they are doing it without breaking the law.
Oh, and your comment about laborers working hard in the sun and making very little? Well, supply and demand is in effect for labor too. Any of us can go into a field and start picking fruit, if we have our hands and legs intact. The supply of people able to do that is effectively unlimited, so wages will be lower. People trying to calculate the loss/risk formulas for insurance companies is at a far lesser supply and thus their salaries are higher.
I understand your heart, but engage your brain too, and all this will make sense.
