Politicians need to wake up and realize that tax collection isn't the route to a free ride for themselves and their cronies.

Tom Coburn is pissed because he isn't being chauffeured in a Bentley.

Keeping (the majority of) Americans stupid isn't a byproduct of a poorly implemented educational system, it's by design. How else could the politicians ensure their ability to continue the financial rape and abuse of the country's citizenry?

Is it fair to subject the intelligent to the same abuse? Sure, it can be argued that way. But the better argument is that no one should be abused in the first place. But that's a lot of change that needs to happen. And we all know that kind of change only happens in Libya, Egypt, etc...