Keep it going guys! I've still got most of a bowl of popcorn
My biggest problem with taxes under Democrats is it's what I call "Shame-on-you" taxing. Back when I was working 2 days/week I was paying maybe $30 into taxes, now I'm up around 180 hours/month (working almost every day) and only making a few hundred per check more. I know people that have some
SERIOUS money but won't invest it into anything because they'll pay out the @$& in capital gains taxes and they'd rather wait a few years for Republicans to come back into some form of power and let people earn money again.
In defense of the man, Obama has done 1 great thing that I can think of. The firearms industry is probably the only one making good money these days. Ammunition these days costs 4x what it did just a few years ago, semi-automatic firearms are up around 3x, and it's hard to get a hold of anything. If only Napolitano hadn't decided that the Chinese needed the CIA, FBI, Police, and Military's empty brass worse than the U.S. owned and operated companies reloading them and selling them to the civilian market (tens-of-thousands have already lost their jobs over this).
EDIT: While I'm still on my soapbox I'd like to unload something else. In 2008 Bush temporarily removed the federal tax on gasoline (probably diesel as well, my memory sucks though) and people were all mad and claiming that he was just trying to help out his "rich buddies" by making them pay less into taxes. The thing they don't seem to understand is that the oil companies are not going to just eat the cost of taxes and keep gas prices the same. Without the taxes they can produce it for less money and therefore sell for less money (laissez-faire free-market capitalism does actually work, oil companies compete for business and they reduce their prices to make their oil more attractive to buyers.) If we crank up the taxes on big companies they will raise prices which makes things harder for the everyday person and that company will probably relocate overseas where they can improve their profit margins by getting cheaper labor and fewer taxes. Every big company/corporation started off as a small one but through hard work and good business decisions they prospered and grew (hiring more workers along the way, lets not forget). Lets not punish them for being successful but rather encourage success and let the "troubled assets" which make poor decisions fail, someone else will come in to fill their space.