passed the old temp record at 8am today

[blumpkin blownuts]

What makes you a crook is insisting that people are not entitled to their own money. I don't care how rich someone is, that's their money and you have no claim on it.

"stealing from your local wal*mart is not taking money out of sam walton's own pockets"

A very telling statement. It's no more justifiable to steal from Sam Walton than to steal from anyone else. You have this attitude that success is wrong and those who achieve it deserve to be punished, this seems prevalent among the OWS crowd and it's going to ruin this country if it gets out of hand. Sam Walton built an empire out of nothing, he deserves every dime he earned. He's not your enemy, he's what you should aspire to be. The last generation understood that, this one just wants everything handed to them. We're becoming a nation of perpetual children.

You make profit by selling a service or product at a higher price than what it cost you.

Since money trees are losing their leaves so quickly now, there's less infinite money from the top to use to pay for the work and resources of all those procurers, be they producers, or distributors or some other middle-men.
Taxation/redistribution is a way of redistributing that wealth, so that the steel mill owner and the ore miner both have municipal garbage service, wastewater collection, social security, etc.
Taxation is not "punishment" it's patriotism. I don't see why people who don't like it just all move to some shithole without taxes like Somalia, and pay outta pocket for security, EMS/fire, sanitation, etc all by hand (if they even exist in your area)