A bank will not foreclose on a mortgage that is current.  Apparently, these mortgage holders have fallen behing in their payments.

Stupid title.  They are not seven taxes, rather seven income items which could be taxable

You are very incorrect about you Arthur Laffer article.  It has been proven time and again that when you lower tax rates you increase revenue, and vise versa.

johnnyonthespt is stupid.  Accepted, not excepted.  Why are people so stupid?

You obviously don't know the social security rate.  It's 7.65 % of wages.  A couple that pays $598,000 into social security would have made $7,816,993 in wages.  Is that an average salary?

Using your logic, we should hope for $100 per gallon gas