Well, folks. The figures are out. The latest numbers from the IRS have hit the mean streets --- and guess what? The rich still aren't paying their fair share! Well .. that will be the liberal line, but since you're reading the Nuze YOU are going to know the truth. So here it is .. the latest figures from the year 2007, according to the Tax Foundation.

The top 1% of taxpayers officially paid 40.4% of total federal income taxes. This is the highest percentage in modern history. Compare that number to twenty years prior (1987) when the top 1% of taxpayers paid 24.8% of income taxes. Now if you're not initiated into the Church of the Painful Truth you're probably thinking that the evil top 1% probably earn way over 40% of the income. Well .. you would be wrong. These nasty, disgusting and oh-so-easy to hate high-achievers actually earned about 22.8% of total adjusted gross income. And just how much does some crook have to earn to be in this top 1%? Try $410,000. Remember now .. many, if not most, of these wretched people are small business owners and their adjusted gross income is really their business income. Still .. they're nasty. Right?

Ok .. more painful truth. The share of taxes paid by the top 1% of taxpayers now exceeds the share paid by the bottom 95% of taxpayers. Again, the top 1% paid 40.4% of incomes taxes while the bottom 95% paid 39.4% of the income tax burden. For those of you who are government educated, that means that the top 1% of taxpayers (which is just 1.4 million people) paid a larger share of the income tax burden than the bottom 95% of taxpayers (which is comprised of 134 million people). This means that the evil rich are carrying the road.

The key to these numbers is that over 9 out of 10 Americans will never see them nor will anyone ever share these numbers with them. So the Democrats will, in spite of these numbers, be able to continue to demonize the evil rich and spread the lie that somehow they aren't "paying their fair share." To make things worse ... Democrat demagogues will continue to promote the idea that all of their vote-buying social welfare programs can easily be funded with additional taxes on the rich. Where do they start? When the top 1% is paying about 80% of all income taxes?

Well .. it gets worse. Now for the first time, the IRS decided to break things down even further. It presented data on the super rich, the top 0.1% of tax earners. We are talking about the top 10% of the top 1% of earners. About 141,000 taxpayers fit into this group. Those 141,000 people account for 12% of the adjusted gross income earned but they pay 20% of all federal income taxes.

... about American healthcare. An interesting report was prepared by a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of radiology and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical School by the name of Scott W. Atlas. He has prepared ten reasons why America's health care system is in better condition than you might suppose. Here's an overview, but the whole thing is worth a read. This is for all of your liberal friends who are convinced that a single-payer, government healthcare system is going to "save" our healthcare system.

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.

3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.

4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.

5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.

6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom.

7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.

8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.

9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.

10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.

Well .. remember. No matter how good our medical care is today, it simply doesn't empower politicians enough. That's the goal of ObamaCare, and the sooner you realize that the better prepared you are to fight for your freedom. ObamaCare is not about improving health care in the United States. It is ALL about increasing the power that political hacks have over your life and your bank accounts.

The Congress is on a little recess right now, which means that many of them are back home in their districts. Many Democrats have one goal in mind: convince their constituents that they need government-run healthcare. Oh wait, I'm sorry .. that's no longer the Democrat talking point. (Someone slap me.) I meant to say that we need to reform the health insurance industry. It's all about health insurance now because Obama's behavioral scientists have convinced him that is the insurance companies the people hate, not their health care. You gotta go with the flow when you're trying to seize almost 20% of the American economy. Anyway, a lot of Democrats have scheduled Townhall meetings with constituents to talk about these health insurance reforms. So far some of the meetings aren't going all that well.

Not sure if you heard what happened to Arlen Spector and Kathleen Sebelius over the weekend. They met a not-so-happy crowd at a townhall meeting in Philadelphia. This wasn't the best PR for the Democrat cause. So now Senator Dick Durbin wants to make sure that other Democrats aren't "sucker punched" like Specter and Sebelius were at their townhall. He blames any outrage at these meetings on interest groups that are funded by the big, bad, evil insurance industry. He says, "I hope my colleagues won't fall for a sucker punch like this ... These health insurance companies and people like them are trying to load these town meetings for visual impact on television."

There you go! You couldn't possibly be upset about the government's plan to take over your health care. If you're at a Townhall meeting and you aren't looking forward to depending on the federal government for your health care .. you're a stooge for the evil insurance companies.

Listen to that language: these insurance companies "and people like them." Hey, Dick .. have you ever considered the fact that there really are people out there who value a free market system over your government option? That idea hasn't crossed your mind, has it? Nope. Because to a Democrat, they can't even imagine what it would be like to be in love with government. They can't fathom the idea that people want to rely on themselves for healthcare, rather than turn to the government.

Yesterday I compared the Democrat's use of the insurance companies as a boogieman to the way Hitler demonized the Jews. Sounding more and more familiar, isn't it?

Web Guy responded to this guy by reminding him that during the first year of the Clinton administration they were actually formulating an idea to seize 15% of the outstanding balance of all pension and 401K plans. Howard was also reminded that one of Obama's heroes, Cristina Kirchner, the president of Argentina, recently seized all private pension plans in that country.

That's OK. It could never happen here, right?

The Democrats have had it, vowing to pass their healthcare legislation with or without Republican support.

The White House is doing damage control, assuring the dumbmasses that there aren't any plans to increase taxes on the middle class. Yeah .. and they always tell the truth, don't they?

Federal tax receipts are on pace to drop 18% this year, which would be the biggest single-year decline since the Great Depression. The answer? RAISE TAXES!

American companies are increasingly turning to offshoring their functions and few plan to bring those jobs back to the United States. I'm sure that more tax increases will solve this problem, don't ya think?

Is this cash for clunkers program actually going to impact the number of car sales? An analysis by Macroeconomic Advisers says that the program will affect only the timing of car sales, not total sales.

This isn't a good sign .. Kathleen Sebelius says she has "no idea" about a section of the Senate healthcare bill that requires her to "develop standards for the measurement of gender."

The Department of Transportation has had to double the number of staff members contracted to process all of the orders from the cash-for-clunkers program. No surprise. These are government workers here .. usually takes four times as many to do what one private sector employee can do.

Don't know if you caught this column last week from the Washington Post: Health Reform Threatened by Conservatives' Anti-Tax Fantasy. Yeah .. those evil conservatives and their dislike of taxes. Go figure.

Looks like Rahm Emanuel is doing some major arm twisting in order to get Barack Obama pressers on the major networks during prime time.

As you start to send your children back to government schools, consider these stories about our precious teachers unions in this country and the wonders they are doing for education.

The AFL-CIO is getting a new president, and he vows for a more aggressive brand of labor politics once he's in charge.

You might find this amusing .. only 32% of Republicans in Virginia think that Barack Obama is a legal citizen.

This "birther" bill is gaining legs with some Congressmen. No wonder we're in trouble.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving is upset with Barack Obama for having a beer with Gates and Crowley last week because it "may send an inappropriate signal to young people." Get a life ladies.

Yeah, and these traffic cameras are all about safety.

Well, you know those baptisms can get rowdy...

It was only a matter of time before someone pulled all these ugly tattoos together in one place. Be careful, some might not be safe for work.