GE closed its incandecent bulb manufacturing plant in US because the Greens banned incandecent light bulbs. Stock up on the few remaining when you can. It was not GE management it was Enviromental whackos. They mandated these curlly top CFL's with Mercury and low light output, so that it is hard to read by. When one is broken, per US EPA, you need a HAZMAT team to dispose of them.

What is trully unfair is that close to 50% of the people in the US do not pay any Federal Income Taxes. You can dance around and say they pay sales taxes, etc. But so does everyone else. When the majority don't pay Federal Income Taxes they will vote to raise them and get more handouts. We need the Flat Tax where everyone pays.

Raising taxes on Dividends, which were already taxed at the Corporate level and Capital Gains will hurt retired people who are using their dividends and capital gains to live on. Saved the money while working, no need to start withdrawing it.