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Survey says: Tax the rich Americans
Auburn NY Citizen ^ | 2/17/05 | By The Citizen staff report

Posted on 02/17/2005 8:05:02 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

A recent poll conducted by five New York legislators showed their constituents would support higher taxes on the wealthiest population to help pay for education.

Voters in all five districts strongly supported a new surcharge on incomes above $150,000, if the revenue was dedicated to providing additional aid to public schools.

The poll, which was presented Monday at the state legislative budget hearing on education funding, surveyed voter opinion in the districts of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Owen Johnson (R-Babylon), Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Herman "Denny" Farrell (D-Manhattan), the Senate Education Committee Chairman Stephen Saland (R-Poughkeepsie), Assembly Education Committee Chairman Steven Sanders (D-Manhattan) and Assemblyman Chris Ortloff (R-Plattsburgh).

More than 60 percent of the voters in the five districts said if the governor vetoed a new surcharge, they would support a legislative override.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: babylon; extortion; manhattan; orqainizedtheft; plattsburgh; poughkeepsie; taxes
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And we wonder why NY is going down the tubes faster and faster every day.
1 posted on 02/17/2005 8:05:09 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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Voters in all five districts strongly supported a new surcharge on incomes above $150,000, if the revenue was dedicated to providing additional aid to public schools.

Haha, idiots. Tax them too much and rich people just LEAVE! Then you COMPLETELY lose the rich tax base. Isn't this what happened with big cities in the 1960s and 1970s? Taxes went too high and the people who could afford to move just fled to the suburbs.

2 posted on 02/17/2005 8:07:36 AM PST by xrp (Executing assigned posting duties flawlessly -- ZERO mistakes)
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Survey says: Tax the rich Americans

Meaning... Make someone else pay for it. I don't want to.

3 posted on 02/17/2005 8:07:51 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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Let's just cut to the chase and let me quit my job and raise taxes on the wealthy to 80%, they can afford it. It pays to be poor I guess, except for that not getting paid much thing.


4 posted on 02/17/2005 8:08:54 AM PST by One Proud Dad
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I think they should just tax the politicians more.
5 posted on 02/17/2005 8:09:05 AM PST by demlosers
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Why does anyone still want to live in NY? Too bad, it's such a beautiful state.


6 posted on 02/17/2005 8:10:31 AM PST by Indy Pendance
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Translation: Gimme more stuff, you evil rich people.


7 posted on 02/17/2005 8:11:19 AM PST by Modernman ("Normally, I don't listen to women, or doctors." - Captain Hero)
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To: Phantom Lord

TAX THEM NOT ME,

TAX THEE AND THEE AND THEE - BUT NOT ME

So this is what the Blue Staters believe and want us Red Staters to live like. More pensions for government hacks and less services.


8 posted on 02/17/2005 8:11:59 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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I am FOR increasing taxes on the wealthy.........as long as employers, entrepreneurs, and investors are exempt. (:


9 posted on 02/17/2005 8:13:23 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: Phantom Lord
SURVEY SAAAYS


10 posted on 02/17/2005 8:14:34 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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Why not just have a 100% tax? Let's get it over with, this nickle and diming us to death is just silly. Then the gov can give us the money they think we deserve. LOL! Just think, everyone would quit their jobs for free money. No workers equals no money which eventually equals no gov and we get to start all over again, the way it was designed over 200 years ago.


11 posted on 02/17/2005 8:14:47 AM PST by Indy Pendance
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Yes, I bet this surcharge would really hit home in Plattsburgh.


12 posted on 02/17/2005 8:15:41 AM PST by HostileTerritory
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Theft. Plunder the rich in the land of the "free." Why should parents be responsible for funding their own children's education when they can rob some rich stranger?


13 posted on 02/17/2005 8:16:05 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real politcal victory, take your issue to court.)
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Indiana is getting ready to sqeeze the "rich," too. Rich means household income of over $100,000 in this case. Thanks, Mitch Daniels. Not to mention he is going to revoke our status as one of the last bastions of sanity by imposing DST.


14 posted on 02/17/2005 8:16:14 AM PST by mysterio
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Voters in all five districts strongly supported a new surcharge on incomes above $150,000, if the revenue was dedicated to providing additional aid to public schools.

There is education needed.

1) Dedicated funds don't mean squat. In many states where lotteries were set up to fund education the legislature reduced the education component from the general fund because the lotteries would now pay for that. Education did not get more. I can see the day where schoolkids are selling lottery tickets to their parents so the school can buy a new football stadium or what-not.

2) Taxes are always created for the wealthy and then imposed on the less wealthy. That's because there aren't enough wealthy to do anything meaningful. So they set some arbitrary number like $150,000 and give it a go and the legislature comes back and crys, "We aren't getting enough. All the rich people moved to Florida. We need to lower the threashold to $50,000." And you're screwed.

Shalom.

15 posted on 02/17/2005 8:16:44 AM PST by ArGee (Having homosexual sex makes as much sense as drinking beer through your a$$.)
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To: Modernman

Rich = All those not poor


16 posted on 02/17/2005 8:17:32 AM PST by Renkluaf
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To: Indy Pendance

... but that means I have to let go my social security hopes I have of living the good life when I retire.


17 posted on 02/17/2005 8:17:33 AM PST by One Proud Dad
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Sheesh! Can libs think of absolutely nothing new? The answer is always: Increase taxes! Give more money to our overwhelmingly liberal and ineffective public education system! More taxes! More money for education!

One would think that even they would begin to notice how profoundly shallow they sound!

18 posted on 02/17/2005 8:19:42 AM PST by TChris (Most people's capability for inference is severely overestimated)
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I'm really beginning to think it's something in the public water systems.


19 posted on 02/17/2005 8:19:44 AM PST by xcamel (Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
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To: One Proud Dad

I suppose you could move to Cuba. :)


20 posted on 02/17/2005 8:20:42 AM PST by Indy Pendance
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