President George W. Bush's policy of giving tax breaks to the rich to create jobs for the poor is not only flawed in practicality, it creates an aura of aristocratic control in our leadership. It is not beneficial to our economy nor our society to give breaks to the richest of Americans such that they may take out another $100,000 (the tax break for the top 2 percent in 2003 was $126,000) investment in a foreign company. There are people bearing the burden of Bush's failed domestic policy getting jobs for $9,000 less a year, paying huge increases to medical insurance companies, paying huge increases in home heating, and paying huge increases in college tuition.

It's not a matter of percentages, because in middle class America the percentages are not proportionate to ability to live comfortably and get by. The upper tier of Americans have no trouble paying the $50,000 a year for their children's Ivy League Education, nor paying millions for summer homes on the coast. Why should they not bear the burden as so many middle class Americans already do? Some argue that 25 percent is drastically too high and that a flat tax is truly fair, but in reality is it fair that the ability to live the American dream be squandered by this administration's arrogant and aristocratic view of the tax system?