If our government refuses to

lessen the burden on the well-to-do, they can always fight back. Income

tax is voluntary. If you don't want to pay it all you have to do is eliminate

your income. Since the top 1 percent usually do not live paycheck to paycheck,

they could easily afford to go on strike for a while (i.e., give the country

an "Atlas Shrug"). I doubt that it would take more than a week

of inactivity on these people's part to shut the country down. All they

need to do is use the Internet to get organized.

I am not in the top 1 percent

yet, but I am working hard to get there. It is just so discouraging to

work hard and get to keep barely half of each extra dollar earned. I am

ready to fight back, but I guess I'll see what the new Republican majority

in Congress does to remedy the situation first. Hopefully they feel the

same way that Cal Beverly does about the inequity of our tax system.

Bill Gilmer

Fayetteville