Here is a graph on income taxes. For low wage earners, the rate has been pretty much stagnant for years but for upper wage earners, the rate drops quite a bit. Up until 2004. Begs to question what is wrong with these people at Fox and those that listen and believe that tribe? Your beloved Reagan for most of his administration never had it as low as now. By the way. 39% taxation is considered Socialism so we have been in Socialism for a lot the last 20th century.
Before you all go out and have these revolutionary uprisings why don't you people step back and put into perspective what income taxes used to be in this country and what is needed now to bail us out of our troubled times. In the Leave it to Beaver era, taxes were much higher as were they for WW II era. During the Reagan years, the middle to lower income tax rates spiked up a bit but the rich got a break. We survived and yet people let Fox News whip themselves into a lather for what most at these demonstrations don't even understand. They just there to hold a sign because Fox told them to. The fact is that anyone making over $250,000 are going to pay more and 99% of those at these tea bag party's, their taxes are going down. For the very very rich, it is a 3% raise. You don't see the Bill Gates type people out there demonstrating. Only the mis informed masses that don't understand show up to carry signs. Ted Nugent showed up, sure. They sobered him up and he got paid.
I think the Right is grabbing at straws and talk of revolution and hate is doing worse damage to our country with Hannity and his irk. Like I have always said, Hannity's America scares me more than Osama Bin Laden. For those who don't know the difference, Bin Laden was the one responsible for 9/11 that Bush never caught.
Maybe we all shouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions when this President has been in office only 3+ months trying to get us out of an economic disaster that happened on the Bush watch. Makes me wonder that if Bush had announced a 3% tax increase on the wealthy how fast Glen Beck or Limbaugh would be writing checks to save or country and paying taxes would be a patriotic duty. Just because your guy lost, doesn't mean Obama, who won the election by the way, is wrong. Why can't the Right give it time like they would have for Bush?
Stop being sheep. If Fox News said cliff jumping was patriotic, then thousands would jump off cliffs. Maybe that is what they should do. Joe the Plumber can be first.
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I'll believe taxes have gone down when the HRA tax is gone, the garbage tax is gone, the museum tax is gone and my property tax is what is was just 5 years ago (let alone 10-15).
But it isn't so much the tax as how the money is spent. Do you believe that those with the checkbook at any level of government are prudent with your tax $$?
No Chef, I don't which is why I voted against the tax for the museum. I am not against the museum, just another tax. Yet, people protested via a tea party, which was started by Libertarians as non partisan and turned into an Obama slam fest by Fox. The Right, and Fox, hasn't had an original idea in over 8 years which is why the revolution took place on November the 4th, 2008.
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