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there's so much wrapped up in that article, it's hard to bite off a piece and start to chew on it.
the argument, at least as far as I can tell, is that someone has to pay taxes and a line has to be drawn somewhere.
I can't remember exactly, but I suspect that 250,000 is some kind of quintile or must be linked to some kind of study...unless it's just a number pulled out of a hat but Obama doesn't strike me as the type to advance that kind of hokey-pokey.
Yeah, I understand some small businesses will feel a bit crunched by extra taxes, but according to the plan it merely rolls the rates back to Reagan era rates which plenty of people were satisfied and even prospered under. It's even better in the sense that if that money is put toward health care for all workers than it reduces costs for many, allows others to be competitive with large companies that can offer health benefits, and reduces problems associated with sick workers including improving productivity.
the moral imperative as I understood it was that paying taxes is patriotic and it's morally correct to pay one's fair share to participate in the pie of US commerce. This argument is promoted as opposed to getting a free ride or using dodgy tax shelters, I never saw anyone argue how the pie should be sliced as a moral mandate.
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