I rarely link to articles over on Salon since reading them requires either being a subscriber (which I am but you might not be) or watching some commercials. If you don't mind one or the other, this article by Joe Conason is a pretty good summary of some of the economic problems we may be in for due to four more years of George W. Bush. The brief summary is that tax burdens will be shifted from wealthy folks who make most of their money via investments to poor and middle-class people who hold more conventional jobs; that folks in so-called "blue" states will pay more than folks in so-called "red states;" and that the plans to privatize Social Security could amount to an incalculable disaster.