As quite a few believe, and I will take the dangerous tactic here and assume Lynn and others who believe like him do, that this hard working family you just described should now that they are doing better pay more taxes to support those who choose not to do anything to better themselves. See, everyone should be equally poor in his eyes, except he would say equally well off but not equally responsible for working harder. Lynn hates the middle class, again my assumption, but my belief is he never worked his way up in life and it of course could not be his fault, it is a lack of handouts from those of us who work hard to improve our situation. Feel sorry for him, he has been programmed to believe he and others are entitled to the fruits of my labor. Talking with him is like the waste of time talking to extreme partisans,they prefer to just fling hate at those who believe differently.  Quick example, look over at Don Richey's letter and notice the amount of hate it generated.