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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 333450" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>Not at all. What I don't like is that they specifically chose to leave out things like the standard deduction in order to make the difference in tax rates seem more dramatic than it actually is, ie, making a $400 dollar per year difference into a $4000.00 dollar per year difference.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't remember anyone asking that question, and the charts provided in the email only go up to 125k. That's certainly well off, but I wouldn't call it rich. To me the point of the email was to point out the (supposed) dramatic differences in tax rates on the working class, hence the misrepresentation of the numbers. Some people might get worked up about $400, but a whole lot more will get worked up about $4000, especially if they are making 30k. This type of fearmongering is dishonest, and it's precisely the kind of thing that Brian Wesbury was concerned about in the article you posted here.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not sure you're responding to the main point of that article. Yes, Lieberman and Sanders have chosen to caucus with the Democrats, which is their right as Independents. But Snopes admits that they are just quibbling about that (hence their reference to it not being "technically correct"). The main point is that the problems we are seeing currently like the housing market meltdown have been years in the making, and it's a real stretch to try and pin it all on the democrats who got elected less than 2 years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 333450, member: 4805"] Not at all. What I don't like is that they specifically chose to leave out things like the standard deduction in order to make the difference in tax rates seem more dramatic than it actually is, ie, making a $400 dollar per year difference into a $4000.00 dollar per year difference. I don't remember anyone asking that question, and the charts provided in the email only go up to 125k. That's certainly well off, but I wouldn't call it rich. To me the point of the email was to point out the (supposed) dramatic differences in tax rates on the working class, hence the misrepresentation of the numbers. Some people might get worked up about $400, but a whole lot more will get worked up about $4000, especially if they are making 30k. This type of fearmongering is dishonest, and it's precisely the kind of thing that Brian Wesbury was concerned about in the article you posted here. I'm not sure you're responding to the main point of that article. Yes, Lieberman and Sanders have chosen to caucus with the Democrats, which is their right as Independents. But Snopes admits that they are just quibbling about that (hence their reference to it not being "technically correct"). The main point is that the problems we are seeing currently like the housing market meltdown have been years in the making, and it's a real stretch to try and pin it all on the democrats who got elected less than 2 years ago. [/QUOTE]
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