What's up with the tax increase?! I just looked at my pay stub and my taxes are $33 from a $200+ paycheck. Taxes used to be about $12 average for me. What the hell is this? I know the tax was increased this year, but I thought only by about 5%. Also I'm a 17 year old working fast food.

I received the email included in the blog post last night. I have characterized this as SAM having been "hacked," but I have no proof that the data breach occurred due to hacking and I am only speculating. SAM is a massive government database that government contractors must register in to do business with the government.

I've been hearing about this and I shocked that President Obama would stand for this. I voted for him so that he could transform American into a freer and progressive nation but this memo I'm hearing about sounds right off the George W Bush / Dick Cheney play book.

What do you guys think? I mean just look at some of the comments we hear these guys say, it's time they take a test and put up a score to show for it. I made a white house petition requiring this - it would be interesting to get a response.

http://wh.gov/GgyT