And everybody still seems to be ignoring the fact that tax cuts are
about the least effective way to help the economy.
Chris Dunford wrote:
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve at Verizon
I have no complaint with a progressive tax system.
The difference is that in the past we collected less
income tax from the poor and now we don't collect any
income tax from the poor but give our income tax money
to them.
Well, I'm not sure what this has to do with Obama. Your complaint has to do
with our basic fiscal system, not with Obama. He didn't create or control
the system you don't like, nor is he radically changing it. Complaints that
he wants to redistribute the wealth ignore that fact that we already do
that, and he had nothing to do with it. You might as well accuse Bush of
wanting to redistribute wealth, since this is the system that was in place
during his two terms. Reagan's, too.
Y'all are acting like he has some radical, wild-eyed plan to soak the rich
and give it all to the poor. He doesn't. It's just tweaking. (And by the
way, under Obama's plan, even the top 1% will have lower average rates than
they did in the 90s--so much for soaking the rich.)
It's just not all that different from what we've been doing for lo these
many years, and yet somehow Obama is a Marxist. It makes no sense.
Now we have beaten to death the point that they pay
other taxes, you seem to approve of giving out income
tax money to the working poor to compensate for the
other taxes they pay.
We've beaten it to death, yet you still insist on sticking the word "income"
into these complaints? They point is, they pay federal taxes, and they're
going to get some of it back. No one is getting back more than they paid,
which is what the conservative media are implying.
I would prefer that those other taxes be lowered for the poor instead
Me too. Unfortunately, it takes time for tax rate reductions to have any
effect. Rebates are essentially retroactive tax rate decreases, surely?
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