It seems to me (because, of course, I am a Republican) that a lot of people don't understand what it means when politicians say they only want to raise taxes on the rich.  People, I think, tend to think this means, on rich 'people'.  But it doesn't.  The dirty little secret is, they really mean, corporations/big and small business in addition to rich individuals.  But mainly they are going after businesses.  $250,000 may sound like a lot when you look at it as an individual, but the income the government takes in off of this group is hardly a blip on the government accounting ledger.  But corporate taxes, now that's a different matter.  Now we're talking Billions and probably even Trillions.  (Honestly, I don’t know how true these numbers are – who does really.)

People have to understand that corporations have never, do not, and will never pay taxes - ever. No matter how much 'talk' you get from the politicians, trying to foster class warfare and anti "big business" sentiments - they know full well that all taxes, every dime, the government puts on business is just passed on to the consumer.  Prices go up and we - the people who buy 'things' pay the "Big Business" tax.  Or we lose jobs and raises.  Inflatiion rises and the poor always suffers the most.  Naturally.  But it's the poor they are always claiming to be helping.  Maybe now we can understand why they never really do get helped. 

Also, most of the jobs that are going overseas are NOT going there because of 'cheap labor'.  That is what the Democrats in Washington tell you.  Yes, the labor is cheaper and that is one of the benefits, but most business would much rather stay home in their own beloved USA, than to go overseas to third-world countries.  The biggest reasons most businesses go overseas are, for the most part, twofold (there are other reasons, of course): 

1) Too many government-imposed regulations that drive up the cost of production, and 2) ever-increasing corporate taxation.  If they stay in America they will either go out of business because, 1) they cannot afford to pay employees because so much of the cost of doing business is tied up in these two areas, so they simply shut down, or, 2) they go out of business as they go up against competing overseas firms that don't have such mandates and pay lower wages anyway, and with other American firms that have already gone overseas.

It is my opinion, of course, since these two areas of burden on our American Firms are due to Democrat Party mandates - they are the ones we need to get rid of in order to fix this problem.   

With their right hand, they fall all over themselves to help Union workers so they can cover up the fact that, with their left hand, they are largely responsible for their jobs going overseas.  Then you hear them, time and time again, rail against Republicans, claiming it is somehow their fault; that they just want to help the rich; that they don't care about the poor or the working class.