Sam wrote: > Can you explain tha again, seems to be key words missing or it's time > for happy hour. Yes, the was an unfinished thought in my invitation to debate the differences between the two proposed tax plans if anybody wants to do that.
But you seem to be missing the main point that your "right leaning source", the Tax Foundation arguments are entirely built using the "left leaning" Tax Policy Center's research and data. So I am unclear on how this is supposed to balance a source when they both are on the same side of the scale? <quote src="http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/23319.html"; last paragraph> The Tax Policy Center has done the public a service by putting hard numbers on the candidates' tax plans and bringing a dose of reality to the political rhetoric. </quote> So if we are both in agreement that the Tax Policy Center is a reasonable comparison of the two tax plans and the Tax Foundation seems to agree. Then the debate seems to be whether is is better lower taxes for everybody, but lower it much more for the highest earners or to lower it more for most but raise it for the very tippy top earners. You will noticte that this comparison from the same data used by the Tax Foundation show that taxes would be lowered for everybody who earns less the $227,000 per year. And honestly are all those who earn between $227,000 and $603,000 per year really going to feel that $12 increase. Above 603K, you probably have something to say about the differences. Tax Policy Center's estimate of how the average tax bill could change in 2009 under each candidate's proposals: MCCAIN OBAMA Income Avg. tax bill Avg. tax bill Over $2.9M -$269,364 +$701,885 $603K and up -$45,361 +$115,974 $227K-$603K -$7,871 +$12 $161K-$227K -$4,380 -$2,789 $112K-$161K -$2,614 -$2,204 $66K-$112K -$1,009 -$1,290 $38K-$66K -$319 -$1,042 $19K-$38K -$113 -$892 Under $19K -$19 -$567 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:268169 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
