Being very insensitive, it does not matter how many registered lobbyists there are, because the past practice of the cocktail circuit "unregistered" lobbyists more than outweighed what the "registered" ones have done.

My voting record is all over the spectrum, so the concept of following party policy is foreign to me. But, what I have noticed about both major parties is that the elected members all share a similar gene - and that's the acquisition of funds for personal war chests from whomever has the cash.

The tax code can swing with the wind, but to those not affected at the moment, there is always room for greater taxation. To those who actually pay the increase, there is not only no room for greater taxation, but also any increased taxation is selective and capricious.

I do have what seems these days to be considered a "narrow" moral and religious viewpoint : Life - in any stage of maturity - is a God-given privilege, and we do not have a human right to abridge a God-given privilege in anything other than a self-defense situation. That view seems to always put me simultaneously in the cross--hairs of the pro-abortion herd and the capital punishment bunch. So be it.

But, I'm digressing from the tax issue - When you rob the Peters of world to pay the Pauls, eventually the ratio of Pauls-to-Peters will be so far out of whack that there will be a zero-balance in Peters. Then what?