Culture Wars Era - is it moving into its final phase?

[David Horn]

(01-23-2017, 07:02 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(01-23-2017, 12:12 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:

(01-22-2017, 10:28 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(01-22-2017, 02:58 PM)Mikebert Wrote:

(01-22-2017, 02:19 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: They don't.  They put out tax plans that help everyone, and the Democrats reinstate the taxes on everyone but the billionaires.

Bush passed the last big tax cuts.  When it came time for them to end, they were preserved for everyone except those who made more than 250K, who saw their tax rates return to the 1990's levels.  The next result was taxes were raised on those high income folks.  I should know, I sold a bunch of stock (which boosted our income for that year to the top bracket) and we to write a big check because I had forgotten about this and not adjusted our extra withholding higher.

Are you a billionaire?

If not, your pretensions to being "rich" are bogus.

If so, you need to get some tax advice from other billionaires, because they certainly aren't paying the top tax bracket, or in fact any bracket at all.

Do you mean that the "rich" only consists of billionaires and not mere multimillionaires like Romney, Madonna, and the Clintons?  That is a novel definition.  Or do you have another definition of "rich"?

The billionaires are the only rich that really matter in terms of effect on the economy.  Last I checked, Buffett was 180 times richer than Romney, but paid an effective tax rate 90 times lower.  Anyone who actually wants to tax the rich has to address that mismatch, and has to address the billionaires.

Come on, it only takes the richest 8 people in the world to match the net worth of the bottom 3,500,000,000 people.  How come the Democrats aren't going after those 8, or at least the 4 or so that live in the US?

Because the Democrats protect the actual rich people, of course.

This is a bizarre reading of history, because the big tax cuts on the rich have all been GOP programs: Reagan, then Bush-43.  Attempts to end the GWB cuts by BHO were opposed by the GOP House.  So how does that reconcile with the Democrats protecting Billionaires?  The Dems are far from innocent, but they don't own this problem.