"Under the economic plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, people earning more than $250,000 a year would pay more in taxes"Two things off the bat:
1) it doesn't say if this is a single-income or if that's for married couples .... meaning each would earn $125,000 ... so basically anyone with a college education - which is what everyone deserves, right?
2)that number has come down quite a bit hasn't it? Did it used to be $500,000? Makes you wonder what it will actually be down to if they actually got into office?
The 'Patriotic Duty' argument is straight out of the 1940's & 50's... in fact if you ever listen to old radio shows (in particular the old comedy shows) you will see plugs about how people shouldn't complain about paying taxes because it was their 'patriotic duty' to help pay down the cost of the War (WW2).
I wouldn't consider that "change" I call that regression. Hmmm, one has to wonder when exactly taxes got so out of hand? Was it little things here and there, or was it one big act? It certainly wasn't the Bush administration that started it, nor was it the Clintons ... so who did it?
And as far as those people who are yacking about people not paying enough taxes - who are making more than enough money (like Oprah, Babs, the Star Wars guy, etc) - nothing stops them from giving the government too much in taxes if they really felt there was a need. Trust me they already have things worked out so they won't be the ones paying more.
They may pull a Madonna and move overseas to stop from having to pay so much in taxes.
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