I saw your example, I still fail to see how that works. Maybe I have the same mental block as BR about Kerry vs. Bush and their respective tax rates!

Seriously though, I really don't see how that works, and I DID see your example, and I understand the theory. It looks good on paper, but I don't believe it works in practice in the real world, for a variety of reasons.

"There's many a slip 'twixt a cup and a lip."

Alot of other things have to happen to make that work, like corporations and business owners actually investing into their businesses, and adding jobs, and increasing their employees wages, etc, as opposed to pocketing their tax breaks, buying luxury homes and other luxury items, hiding their money in tax sheltered savings accounts for themselves, etc. You are all very quick to recognize the pitfalls of giving handouts to the poor who will become dependant upon the government and elect to continue to do nothing as long as they are getting something, but you are not as quick on the uptake when it comes to seeing the risk of tax breaks for corporations and the very wealthy. You trust them to do the right thing, just like we tend to trust that if we give the poor a chance they will do the right thing.