"Jeff Binkley -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in news:31566
$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 RC>>>> If the tax cuts are not extended...

 RC>>>> A single person making 75K a year, will see his tax burden
 RC>>>> increase $2300/yr, a married couple making combined income
 RC>>>> of $150K will see their tax load go up $4900, I suppose

 BK>>>   This may yet happen, because the *REPUBLICANS* have blocked
 BK>>>   the tax cut extension, for those making less than $250K/yr.

 RS>> The only reason they blocked it was because it didn't have a giveaway
 RS>> for the richest 2%.

 JB> It is a giveaway if you let them keep more of their own money ?  These
 JB> folks already pay most of the taxes in this country.

It's not as simple as Rush or Beck claim, (heck, they want that fat tax cut
too,) it's more complex.

I call it the "Paris Hilton Tax Cut" because Hollywood celebrities, where
most of the richest now live, would get the lion's share of the tax cuts.

I do know that from 2003-2007 the Bush tax did *NOT* help the economy, and
starting with the housing buuble popping, everything went downhill.

And there is plenty of blame to go around, republicans and democrats.

But to listen to the right-wing nowadays, "Give fat tax breaks to Paris
Hilton and the economy will magically be all hunky-dory!"

(Paraphrasing slightly the asshole from South Carolina Jim DeMinted.)

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