So, Obama wants to raise taxes only on those who make over $250,000 per year. “Yeah, Obama stick it to those rich fat cats, wallowing about in their Rolls Royce limos, dining on caviar.”

Well, what about inflation? According to the Inflation Calculator if you made $36,000 per year in 1958, that was equal to making $255,459.86 a year in 2007.

Awesome! In a mere 50 years, all of us will be among the super-rich, fat cats well deserving of Obama-scorn.

“Oh, come on now. You know The O means only to tax the rich–of course they’ll adjust the “Lazy Rich Person Tax” for inflation.”

Right: Just like they have adjusted the “Tax-Dodging Rich Person Tax,” also known as the Alternative Minimum Tax, for inflation, huh?

But hey, we can always count on Congress to repeal a silly tax after it has long outlived its usefulness, right? I mean, it only took them a mere 108 years to repeal the tax on all those snobby, pinky-dangling aristocrats mocking us simple folk on their newfangled telephones.