Pelosi is so damn stupid I'm surprised she can fog a mirror without help. In line of what the article says, the top 10% of wage earners foot over 70% of the tax bill. "The rich need to pay their fair share?" Whatta crock. If that's their mantra, the rich need a tax cut and the 51% who are free loading need to step up and pay their fair share. My solution: If you don't pay at least 5% of your income in federal income taxes, you have nothing in the game and you lose your right to vote in federal elections.
You are not allowed to distinguish yourself by your efforts, or have more than ‘the people’. If you have more, it is legitimate to confiscate it from you for redistribution, because after all - you didn't earn that. If you worked hard and put money away, that money isn't yours, and if you are allowed to keep some it should be taxed again when you save it, and then again if you try to give it to your children - even when you die. This is called ‘fair’.
There are, of course, a few allowable paths for distinguishing yourself as an ‘elite’. It is allowed to make oneself ‘better’ than others by being either a 1) successful politician, 2) entertainer, 3) sports star, 4) ‘news’ pundit (as long as you report the party line), and probably 5) attorneys (as long as they continue to vote democrat and give lots of money to the DNC). Occasionally exceptions will be made for some corporate people who tow the line.
The rest of us are supposed to accept our inferior status as an equal within the masses, and to idolize those in the select groups above - cheering and fawning over them, reading articles about them, etc. etc. We are also supposed to work hard for the ‘common good’ as defined by those in the elite groups, but to not have personal ambition.
Get it?