Tea party congressman John Fleming apparently thinks that raising taxes on him is class warfare because after he pays all his business expenses, taxes, and pays to take care of his family he only has a tiny $400,000 left over at the end of the year to "invest". That amounts to about $1,000 a day of disposable cash. Somebody needs to get this man the worlds smallest violin.

The ironic thing is that in this statement about how this money is for "investing" Fleming actually demonstrates why raising taxes on people like him is a good thing. If he chooses to sit on this money as most rich business owners today are doing then that money is taxed, it goes to the government. If he chooses to use that money to actually invest in his business then that money is not taxable as it becomes a business expense. Therefore the higher the tax rate on people like him the more incentive he has to invest this money instead of simply sitting on it. This could mean hiring more workers, opening new business locations and upgrading equipment.

With the current system instead of investing the money in to his business Fleming could decide to sit on the money and end up paying a smaller tax rate on that income than the cashiers at his various Subway and UPS store franchises do.