Elizabeth Warran, Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts and former White House financial reform advisor talking about taxing the rich, said it best I think;

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.

“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

(Me now) Everyone is talking about sharing the load when it comes to taxes and yet the Republicans continue to fight tooth and nail against raising the taxes on the rich.  They (the rich) need the money to create more jobs.  But the rich have had the Bush tax breaks for ten years and where are all the jobs to show for it??  It doesn't do any good to have big companies making lots of "stuff" if there is no one to but their "stuff."