Ravenwood - 10/13/03 12:30 PM
Senator and presidential candidate, Joe Leiberman is kicking off his class warfare campaign in hopes of jump starting his presidential run, reports the AP.
Democrat Joe Lieberman, hoping to jump-start his presidential campaign with a fresh attack on White House policy, is promising to ensure that upper-income Americans pay more taxes than they did before President Bush's record-breaking tax cuts.According to talk show host Neal Boortz, the surtax would keep "the rich" from taking advantage of lower tax rates on their first dollars earned. In other words, rather than have their first $6000 taxed at 10% like everyone else, the evil rich would pay a higher rate.
[...]He also would reverse Bush-backed tax breaks given to people earning more than $200,000 annually - and impose a limited surtax on them. The surtax, which campaign officials did not detail, would ensure that the wealthy do not benefit from the rate changes.
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The evil rich.... don't you think that's pushing it a little bit? Is it really fair to classify all upper income peple as evil and to make them pay a higher percentage of their income just because they invested more time and money in getting a better job and aren't as lazy as cubicle workers? I think that we should all pay the same percentage, because upper-class people (most, not all) deserve to reap the profits of their labor, not have to worry about giving a ridiculous amont to the government.
Posted by: Andrew O'Rourke at November 3, 2003 8:36 PMSorry, perhaps I should have put "evil rich" in scare quotes.
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