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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Appearing on MSNBC on Tuesday, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) informed host Andrea
Mitchell that President Barack Obama’s proposed tax hikes would only cover
federal government spending for eight days.
Arguing for raising taxes on high income earners, Mitchell said “there are
reliable studies that show you can’t cap enough deductions and level the
playing field enough to raise the kind of revenue you need…We’re talking
about a trillion and a half dollars here.”
Rep. Price then proceeded to break down the numbers.
“You know well, Andrea, that the president’s plan to increase taxes on the
upper 2 percent covers the spending by this federal government not for
eight years, not for eight months, not for eight weeks but for eight days.
Eight days only,” he replied. “It’s not a real solution. So, again, I’m
puzzled by an administration that seems to be more interested in raising tax
rates than in gaining economic vitality.”
Obama’s tax plan is estimated to raised roughly $800 billion in additional
tax revenue over the next 10 years. | l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 2 The problem is that the rich don’t have enough money to put so much as a
dent in America’s $16 trillion national debt. “If the IRS grabbed 100
percent of income over $1 million, the take would be just $616 billion,”
writes John Stossel. “That’s only a third of this year’s deficit. Our
national debt would continue to explode.”
Still, Mr. Obama’s supporters persist in proposing tax hikes on the wealthy
. On Sunday, billionaire Warren Buffett proposed a minimum tax for America’
s top earners. “We need Congress, right now, to enact a minimum tax on high
incomes. I would suggest 30 percent of taxable income between $1 million
and $10 million, and 35 percent on amounts above that.” (complete article
below)
There’s just one problem with such an approach, says author Mark Steyn:
If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it’d pay for 4-
1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won’t work. The problem
here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to
sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514
years just to pay off Obama’s 2011 budget deficit.
Indeed, even Mr. Buffett seems to concede that he and the president’s “
soak the rich” proposals are more an act of political theater designed to
generate an emotional response than serious solutions: Mr. Buffett told Matt
Lauer he believes his proposal would boost the “morale of the middle class
.” | l******g
发帖数: 6771 | 3 Everyone should pay his fair share. | C****n
发帖数: 2324 | 4 This is a dangerous statement! Define fair share.
Left think it's unfair even you pay 100 times more than him. Why? because
you still have more left!
【在 l******g 的大作中提到】
: Everyone should pay his fair share.
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发帖数: 6771 | 5 累进税率前提下，raise the marginal rate the same way until the budget is
balanced. Well, if this is too painful for the population, the cut the
wellfare until it's reasonably painful ;-)
【在 C****n 的大作中提到】
: This is a dangerous statement! Define fair share.
: Left think it's unfair even you pay 100 times more than him. Why? because
: you still have more left!
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