I'm guessing you aren't minding what's going on because, in truth, you're not making enough $ to care about the govt taking a bigger chunk of it.
Apparently the wealthiest capitalist in the history of the world - Warren Buffet - isn't either,
"[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Tax breaks for corporations -- and their investors, particularly large ones -- were a major part of the administration's 2002 and 2003 initiatives," Buffett said. "If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning." [/FONT]
http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/01/buffett-vahan-janjigian-pf-ii-in_ty_0430soapbox_inl.html
(forbes of course is a little biased....)
Have you ever actually TAKEN THE TIME to look at the federal budget or are you getting all your news from Sean Hannity? Do you realize that:
1) The health care costs that US employers have to pay relative to peers in wealthy "equivalent" countries (where there is some form of universal healthcare), makes us less competitive? (health care costs)
If you HAD business in the US, and say Europe, you'd realize this - guess you aren't "ballin'" yourself...
If you ACTUALLY TOOK THE TIME TO VISIT THE OMB WEBSITE INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO FIX NEWS, you would see that healthcare costs are not only a)making us companies LESS COMPETITIVE, b) the gov't is PAYING FOR IT ANYWAY WHICH IS INCREASING THE DEFICIT
2) Do you realize that the people we need to employ don't know shit these days because schools suck? (education costs)
You hire a simple high school employee from an EU country that is often as well-trained as an American with a graduate degree - do you know how expensive this is? If SCHOOLS WERE BETTER, that helps companies significant....
Perhaps they didn't teach you this in GED class but the tenants of capitalism are rested on ownership of the factors of production:
LAND, LABOR, CAPITAL (FYI: if you are in IT HUMAN CAPITAL + INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL are probably the most important outputs)
I'm not even going to waste time here - forgive my subjectivism. The likelihood of your going to any .gov site and personally investigating these things vs. buying the non-sensical magic math economics that you've bought into, is as high as me and all the other fellow "non ballers" of the world who are interested in positive change in this country inviting you on a yachting holiday this summer....
Then again, I guess "we" won't be able to afford it......