$200k for an individual filer.
$250k for joint.
Same as it ever was.
That's not what the calculator says. It says that if you are single and make $100k you get $0 tax cut.
The fact is that trying to redistribute wealth, and trying to shift the tax burden from one class to another is a shell game.
If you tax small business too much there are less jobs for the middle class and poor. If you tax the middle class and poor too much then you take away a lot of the business from the small business that provides the jobs.
Neither Obama, or McCain have a plan that solves the economic problems we face.
Its a load of BS.
The nation needs revenue.
That revenue must be derived from its people.
The revenue has NEVER been derived equally from everyone, nor is there anyone who claims it should be.
The services have NEVER been serving everyone equally, nor is there anyone who claims they should be.
Therefore ALL politicians propose tax plans that redistribute wealth.
It is just that to a first approximation, the McCain plan will rob the poor to pay the rich, and the Obama plan will rob the rich to pay the poor.
In an oversimplified way of stating things.
Which do YOU think is more appropriate?
And don't follow with some load of BS about fair or flat taxes. There is and has always been redistribution of revenues from taxation - at least as long as there've been taxes. Other tax plans simply have a DIFFERENT redistribution than the one currently in effect.
Assuming that benefits from the government are NOT distributed equally, explain why placing a small portion of the tax burden on the middle class is better than having that same small portion of the tax burden on the top 5%.
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