What's in it for me

ben·e·fit/ˈbenəfit/

Here's a little story, about me, it's true.  

I work on a contract basis with a good sized trucking company.  This company is Privately held so they don't release financials, but I infer that on a good year they (The Owners) make well into 8 figures.  Clearly they are "Wealthy."  Meanwhile I make well into 5 figures, pretty much even in a bad year. 

Simple question.

How does it help me to raise there TAXES?

Taxes do not equal Income

tax

 [taks] noun

Where do taxes fit into the budget process?  We tend to analgesia the Federal Budget with our house hold budget and in some ways it carries over.  If we have a budget problem at home, we must either decrease spending or increase income in some category(either borrowing or earnings.)

The Federal Government, Same thing.  

However if we change our thinking just a little to say "The Budget Of The United States."  That is the countries budget, we can see that when we tax it's not an increase in income at all.  It is then more as if I had taken a little off of the "Kids lunch money" line item and put it onto the "Dad's Pizza" line item.  Some one ends up going hungry, with no change in top line or bottom line. 

Tax Increase Does Not Equal "Income" Increase

"soaring profits and obscene bonuses"

What is a "Soaring profit, or Obscene Bonus" Mr. Obama declared himself ready to have a fight with the day after his State of the Union address. I'm comfortable with engineering terms so lets think of speed governors and control systems. Automatic control systems weather natural or man made (they're everywhere. Cruse control, The thermostat in your house, the thermostat set on 98.6 in your body.) must have some negative feed back loop. It's like this, Car to fast = negative input car slows down, and vice versa. Pure profit is simply the Negative Feedback (opposite in direction to the movement of the controlled condition) to a part of the economy be to small. It is natures eloquent little solution to supply both the means and motivation for building larger the industry in question, as well as related and competing or substitute industry.

Put more succinctly, "Nothing cures high prices, like high prices." We should celebrate when our fellow Americans and, indeed, Humans make a sound profit. We can only be enriched.

What if we control manually. Say your shower is to hot and groping for the faucet you turn it still hotter, or flying a model airplane towards your self you needing opposite normal inputs thus your bank left leads to an apparent right bank to which the response is to move the stick still farther left. It's called a death spiral. This is what will happen to the Economy if Mr. Obama responds manually to a need for growth by artificially crushing Profit.