Its been anounced that his bill is proposed to be paid through TAX INCREASES 400 billion dollars worth of tax increases on anyone making over 200k a year. Essentially eliminating deductions for ....
healthcare
charity
mortgage
state and local taxes (essentially taxing you twice if this passes)
And raising gas and oil taxes (as if the damn gas wasnt expensive enough as it is)
In early 2009 when the democrats controlled BOTH houses they tried and failed to pass these increases in taxes to pay for Obamacare. Now they plan to try again and blame the gop.
All this doublespeak about taxes is making me dizzy. These very increases were also mentioned as a way to decrease our debt. Obama and his minyons seem to think tax increases are the solution to every problem. NOT ONE WORD ABOUT CUTTING SPENDING
And now word that Bank Of America is planning on firing 30,000 people in the next couple of years. So yea, lets raise all these taxes and see how much further down the rabbit hole we can fall.
The GOP better stand firm!!!
COME ON 2012
Tax Hikes to Pay for Obama's Jobs Plan - Fox News Video - Fox News
I fail to see how a tax cut for the middle class paid for by a tax hike on the rich would not stimulate the economy.
Let's look at who paid taxes each year of the Bush administration and the last two years of the Clinton administration:
First number is percentiles ranked by Adjusted Gross Income (AGI)
Second number is the average Adjusted Gross Income of each taxpayer in that group.
The third number is the average percentage of personal income tax paid.
Tax Year 2008
Top 1% - $380,354 - 38.02%
Top 5% - $159.619 - 58.72%
Top 10% - $113,799 - 69.94%
Top 25% - $67,280 - 86.34%
Top 50% - $33,048 - 97.30%
Bottom 50% - below $33,048 - 2.7%
Tax Year 2007
Top 1% - $410,096 - 40.42%
Top 5% - $160,041 - 60.63%
Top 10% - $113,018 - 71.22%
Top 25% - $66.532 - 86.59%
Top 50% - $32,879 - 97.11%
Bottom 50% - below $32,879 - 2.89%
Tax Year 2006
Top 1% - $388,806 - 39.89%
Top 5% - $153,542 - 60.14%
Top 10% - $108,904 - 70.79%
Top 25% - $64,702 - 86.27%
Top 50% - $31,987 - 97.01%
Bottom 50% - below $31,987 - 2.99%
For Tax Year 2005
Top 1% - $364,567 - 39.38%
Top 5% - $145,283 - 59.67%
Top 10% - $103,912 - 70.30%
Top 25% - $62,068 - 85.99%
Top 50% - $30,881 - 96.93%
Bottom 50% - below $30,881 - 3.07%
For Tax Year 2004
Top 1% - $328,049 - 36.89%
Top 5% - $137,056 - 57.13%
Top 10% - $99,112 - 68.19%
Top 25% - $60,041 - 84.86%
Top 50% - $30,122 - 96.70%
Bottom 50% - below $30,122 - 3.30%
For Tax Year 2003
Top 1% - $295,495 - 34.27%
Top 5% - $130,080 - 54.36%
Top 10% - $94,891 - 65.84%
Top 25% - $57,343 - 83.88%
Top 50% - $29,019 - 96.54%
Bottom 50% - below $29,019 - 3.46%
For Tax Year 2002
Top 1% - $285,424 - 33.71%
Top 5% - $126,525 - 53.80%
Top 10% - $92,663 - 65.73%
Top 25% - $56,401 - 83.90%
Top 50% - $28,654 - 96.50%
Bottom 50% - below $28,654 - 3.50%
For Tax Year 2001 - Takes into account 9/11
Top 1% - $292,913 - 33.89%
Top 5% - $127,904 - 53.25%
Top 10% - $92,754 - 64.89%
Top 25% - $56,085 - 82.90%
Top 50% - $28,528 - 96.03%
Bottom 50% - below $28,528 - 3.97%
For Tax Year 2000
Top 1% - $313,469 - 37.42%
Top 5% - $128,336 - 56.47%
Top 10% - $92,144 - 67.33%
Top 25% - $55,225 - 84.01%
Top 50% - $27,682 - 96.08%
Bottom 50% - below $27,682 - 3.91%
For Tax Year 1999
Top 1% - $293,415 - 36.18%
Top 5% - $120,846 - 55.45%
Top 10% - $87,682 - 66.45%
Top 25% - $52,965 - 83.54%
Top 50% - $26.415 - 96.00%
Bottom 50% - below $26,415 - 4.00%
National Taxpayers Union - Who Pays Income Taxes?
NOTE: In 2009 and 2010, the bottom 40 percent, on average, make a profit from the federal income tax, meaning they get more money in tax credits than they would otherwise owe in taxes. For those people, the government sends them a payment.
Obviously, the President is targeting those in the top 5% for tax increases to offset tax cuts for the bottom 90%. But the bottom 50% aren't paying more than a tiny amount, if any, taxes now and a tax cut for them is essentially meaningless.
Those middle folks need people to be working, looking forward to better pay and benefits, and they need their investments in their 401Ks stablilized far more than they need a few more bucks in their paycheck. And if those tax cuts result in more money having to be printed or borrowed, the money they receive will be worth less and less with each passing month.
That is not a prescription for stimulating the economy. It is a prescription for extending a long and dreary recession.
But 90+% of all jobs are provided by the folks in that top 5 to 10%. And if the President taxes that group more than they are already paying, every penny taken in new revenues is money that won't be available for new private sector jobs, raises, better benefits, investments to stablilize and grow the 401Ks, or venture capitol for new entreprenours.
Tax them enough and you drive the economy into depression.
To stimulate the economy, you run the government as frugally as possible while reducing as much tax and regulation burden on the job creators as possible and turn them lose. That is the one thing this administration is refusing to even talk about.
P.S. That top 5% of tax payers represents about 7 million Americans out of more the 300 million.