Please tell us again just why Congress does not want to raise taxes on the wealthy?

[Tippy]

Freshmen in 112th Congress Exceedingly Wealthy Despite Struggling National Economy

WASHINGTON -- No matter that they’re the newest kids in Congress.

Like their veteran counterparts, U.S. House and U.S. Senate freshmen are together a notably wealthy bunch, enjoying exponentially greater wealth than most of the Americans they represent, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of federal personal financial disclosure reports.

Sixty percent of Senate freshman and more than 40 percent of House freshmen are millionaires, the Center’s study finds. Roughly 1 percent of Americans at large claim the same lofty financial status.

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/03/as-a-class-congressional-freshmen-e.html

Center for Responive Politics Put this together, find the spread sheets here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/personalfinances_3_2011.xls

Scroll down to get the numbers for the Senate:

[liberal N proud]

1. Congress is full of fat cats.

[Hotler]

2. Stop picking on the rich.

Don't you know they are special.

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. A large number of Congressmen have signed pledges not to raise any taxes

[sofa king]

5. Heh. Wait until next summer.

The Democrats in the Senate are going to split the tax cut extensions so that there will be two votes, one for the middle class, and one for the rich. In order to gain bargaining leverage for their masters, Republican Senators will almost certainly hold the middle class tax cuts hostage.

And by so doing, they will be threatening to raise taxes on the middle class, an issue opposed by 70% of voters, in an economic disaster of their own making, in an election year.

By this time next year, your television will be screaming about every Republican Senator up for reelection: "supported raising taxes for the middle class." I'm thinking we can pick up as many as five Senate seats just out of that nifty trick, planned out by President Obama before the latest crop of freshmen took office.

But no matter what, the taxes are going to be raised on the rich. That's because President Obama can veto any extension for them (or for everyone), and he made sure to even set the expiration date so that he can pocket-veto any last-minute deal the next Congress strikes. There is no chance the veto can be overridden. So it's already over, except for the twisting of the headless snake.

[Evasporque]

4. It will kill jobs in the Mega-Yacht builder industry....just plain yachts might take over..

[FredStembottom]

6. My god!

Sales of Maybachs could be affected!

[dtexdem]

7. Because they're either wealthy themselves or lapdogs of the wealthy.

Many Dems as well as Repukes.

[pansypoo53219]

8. because grover made them sign

his pledge. so they can drown the federal government. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!1111!!!!!!

[EmeraldCityGrl]

9. This is an issue where the two parties have become

homogenized. Instead they use abortion, poverty, Civil rights for the LGBT community and so forth
as issues to distinguish one party from the other. Until there are term limits, until the parties become
more fractured they will never get off the gravy train.