Attention Senator Coburn: 35 Is a Bigger Number Than 28 [Physician's Math as Poor as Hand-Writing]

ATR ^ | 2011-05-20 | John Kartch

[92nina]

Attempting to explain his continued push for higher taxes, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) made the following claim during an interview Thursday with ABC’s Jonathan Karl:
COBURN: “The fact is, we’re at the lowest tax rate this country’s been in a hundred years. Right now.” In reality, the top marginal income tax rate for individuals is currently 35 percent. In 1987, after Reagan’s historic tax reform, the top marginal income tax rate for individuals was 28 percent...

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[92nina]

Senator Tom Coburn has amnesia about President Reagan's tax cuts, and possible fiscal conservatism in general.

Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Delicious and Stumbleupon

[fantom]

Never cut overhead , never eliminate redundancy , never eliminate theft ,waste and fraud. No sir, we must raise taxes so the Royal Scam can continue and my bloated retirement package will be safe. These old farts know , if we get serious their theft is on the list .

[240B]

The 35% is only a ‘starting point’.
Then there is
State Tax
County Tax
City Tax
Property Tax
Sales Tax
Gas Tax
Road Tax
School Tax
Social Security Tax
Medicare Tax
Licenses Tax (for everything under the sun, cars, pets, etc.)
Look on your phone bill and add up all the taxes.

I cannot think of anything at all in American society that is not taxed in one way or another.

They even tax the tax. You are required to claim you tax refund as ‘income’ on next years filing. If that is not double or even triple taxation, I don't know what is.

They even tax ‘unemployment’. So they collect tax to pay unemployment and then when they pay it, they tax it to person they are paying. Again, they are taxing tax.

I am looking for the day that all income is sent to Washington (100% tax rate). Your paycheck will not be paid to you. It will go to Washington first and they will decide how much you ‘need’ and cut you a check. Sounds far-fetched, but it is coming if we do not stop it.

If every politician and political lackey in D.C. were to suddenly be ‘raptured’ (Both Parties), it would be the best thing to happen to America in 200 years.

D.C. is nothing more than a den of thieves, just like any third world country anywhere in the world.

[StonyMan451]

In 1911 the top income tax rate was 0%. There was no income tax.

[Sioux-san]

Oklahoma: Time to bring the good doctor back home to deliver babies and reminisce about the good ol’ days when he was a conservative.

[USS Alaska]

Senator Tom Coburn has amnesia about President Reagan's tax cuts, and possible fiscal conservatism in general.

I watched the whole 6:50 tape and Tom Coburn is a staunch conservative who told grover norquisdt to basically kiss his ass.

norquisdt is a jerk off and I'll take coburn every day. Don't cherry pick 15 seconds out of a seven minute interview to dump on Coburn.

[Darth Reardon]

They even tax the tax. You are required to claim you tax refund as ‘income’ on next years filing. If that is not double or even triple taxation, I don't know what is.

Not for Federal.

In the States I've lived in which have state income tax, you declare your Federal return as income, but you also deduct your Federal withholding. So that's not double taxation.