Mr. Shaman
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- May 4, 2010
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I realize you clowns see your income as nothing-more than a "score" (when comparing-notes with other greedy-assholes)....and, you've got the "conservative"-based convinced God wants you to be so wealthy, but....it's time you PAY YOUR FAIR-SHARE....AGAIN!!!!!!
"According to Fareed Zakaria, letting the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of this year would reduce the deficit by 30%."
"With the George Bush tax cuts about expire, the issue of what tax rate the upper class should pay has been on a lot of peoples' minds. The current issue of BusinessWeek looks at the widsom and folly of the Bush cuts. For a while it looked certain that tax breaks put in place for couples earning $250,000 or more under Bush would disappear. The Obama administration has said that it is for extending the tax cuts for those making less than that. But lately, more and more lawmakers are saying that even the richest Americans should get their tax breaks too.
That's why I found James Surowiecki's column in this week's New Yorker timely and interesting. Surowiecki proposes not just reinstituting pre-Bush era tax rates on the rich, but going a step further and creating a super tax bracket for those making the mega buck$. Say 50% for those making $10 million or more. At a time when Washington and voters, if not the market, are growing increasingly worried about the deficit, I think the idea of a super tax rate for the super rich makes a lot of sense. Here's why:......http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2010/08/10/time-for-super-taxes-for-the-super-rich/
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