[Superman]

Looks like you guys have it figured out. I wonder:

This top 1% of "wage earners" who pay 37.4% of income taxes, I wonder what percent of the nation's wealth they control.

These are "wage earners." What about folks who have no time for a job since tracking their various holdings (real estate, stocks, bonds, precious metals, etc) takes up all their time?

And how much of the nation's tax burden should be shouldered by households earning minimum wage ($14,500 per year, gross)? And what sort of "quality time" do parents find to teach values to their children when they are working two jobs in order to make ends meet?

Is the welfare system the problem? Or is the real problem the fact that a family-wage job (with health benefits, perhaps?) is not the "other option" compared to welfare. A step from welfare to work is a big step down, and I do not believe it is because of the lavish lifestyles of welfare families as much as it is the dirth of family-wage jobs. Job creation is fine, but every new minimum wage job created costs you and I money. Employers do not pay the full price of a minumum wage worker. They pay just the (minimum) wage. You and I pay the rest (food, transportation, health care, etc.).

And how much of our taxes are paid by Wal Mart?