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To: karatemom

Obama’s people are talking about 75% marginal tax rates for households over $250,000.

75%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 05/12/2009 1:23:15 PM PDT by whitedog57
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To: whitedog57
Obama’s people are talking about 75% marginal tax rates for households over $250,000.

From an article I Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2009

An economics professor said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, okay, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little... The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased, as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings, and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

I don’t think it can be any simpler than that...

78 posted on 05/12/2009 6:07:09 PM PDT by An Old Man (Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.)
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To: whitedog57

where is this mentioned?


90 posted on 05/12/2009 8:31:09 PM PDT by OafOfOffice (Constitution is not neutral.It was designed to take the government off the backs of people-Douglas)
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