Historically, the breaking point where taxation kills an economy is around the fifty percent mark.. if we are moving towards the 78% level and we see people in charge making lame excuses for the shrinking economy then we are at the point where even people on the left are getting it that the private sector pays for the public sector... maybe not quite yet but it might be dawning on them just a little.. maybe... I'm pretty sure that our leftist leaders, being the arrogant people that they are, will wake up and grab everything they can get their hands on as they see the imminent collapse from the event horizon. When Rome fell lawyers and politicians were murdered as an entire class. I suppose that owning a villa in times of extreme economic distress when barbarians are roaming the area is a precarious thing... We have the arrogant leaders, we will have the extreme financial distress and we have the barbarians [have any of YOU met Mexican Mafia people?]