Posted on 07/07/2009 12:10:49 PM PDT by reaganaut1
New analysis of President Obama's Budget finds that he is targeting the nation's highest earners for greater income redistributions. By 2012, the federal government is scheduled to be redistributing an extra $79 billion from the top-earning 5 percent of American families, and $71 billion of that will be paid by the top-earning 1 percent of families.
"That's an additional $64,000 per family redistributed from the top-earning 1 percent," said the Tax Foundation's president Scott Hodge, "on top of the already substantial $368,000 that would have been redistributed from each family even without President Obama's new policies."
"Part of that change is higher taxes, and part is lower spending on items that benefit high-income people," said the study's lead author, Tax Foundation Senior Economist Gerald Prante.
The new study is No. 168 in the Tax Foundation Special Report series, titled, "How Much Does President Obama's Budget Redistribute Income?" by Prante and his co-author, Chief Economist Patrick Fleenor, and is available online at www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/24783.html.
It is the first in a projected series of reports based on the Tax Foundation's "fiscal incidence" model, a computer simulation of the U.S. fiscal system with an innovation: it measures the redistributive effects of both spending and tax policies. Thanks to numerous studies of tax laws by the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Tax Committee and others, policymakers are well aware of how much money the tax system by itself redistributes from high- to middle- and low-income Americans. Now the Tax Foundation is measuring the redistributive effects of spending as well.
Income redistribution has been on the front burner at least since President Obama told 'Joe the Plumber' on the stump, "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
(Excerpt) Read more at taxfoundation.org ...
Solution? Stop producing. Stop earning. Take off the gold-plated handcuffs, pick up your bat and ball, and go home. Starve the beast.
John Galt, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
From the recent Cap-n-Trade bill. Welfare for 3 years!
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-2454
(5) WEEKLY AMOUNTS- The climate change adjustment
allowance payable to an adversely affected worker for a
week of unemployment shall be an amount equal to 70
percent of the average weekly wage of such worker, but in
no case shall such amount exceed the average weekly wage
for all workers in the State where the adversely affected
worker resides.
(6) MAXIMUM DURATION OF BENEFITS- An eligible worker may
receive a climate change adjustment allowance under this
subsection for a period of not longer than 156 weeks.
Get ready for the Rich to move to Other Countries. They’ve already begun moving from State to State to avoid taxes. If I were rich, I would move to another Country and set up shop.
Each day that passes, I see how Gerald Celente’s predictions of the conditions that will exist in America in 2012 make perfect sense.
Our tax system is unconstitutional in that it does not allow fair and equal treatment.
Why no one has challenged it in court is beyond me.
If you want the rich to pay, tax their net worth every year, not the income.
John
I heard something to the effect that near 50% of all large erection cranes in the world are currently working overtime in Dubai.
Progressive income taxes were challenged IIRC in the late 1930s.
FDR's judges did what they were supposed to. Scotus continues to be a menace to our Constitution and our freedoms.
The progressive income tax is constitutional because everyone is treated the same.
What I think is unconstitutional is the first time home buyers credit and the cash for clunkers.
If you already own a home, you can not get the credit. Even if you sell your home, you can’t get it. With the progressive income tax, you can choose to retire. With the cash for clunkers, you needed to own it for a year.
I wouldn't consider myself rich, but this option is starting to look awfully attractive.
I have long heard that “the rich” make the world go ‘round and control every aspect of our country.
If “they” truly have a problem with this then I assume they will simply help us vote him out.
*tongue in cheek of course*
I cancelled my cable TV, stopped going to see bad movies, and only buy food and necessities these days. The days of frivolous shopping sprees are long gone much to my wife’s disappointment but she understands survival as well.
Starve the beast for it has bitten the hand that feeds it!
PING
Atlas Puked...
The problem is a good income does not make you rich. Mr mom and I are blessed with a good income (not sure we make the top 5%, but we are definitely in Obama’s sights) However we are soon to have 3 kids in college (no aid for you, you’re rich) and a good sized mortgage payment, as that is about the only tax write off left to us. Rich? I don’t think so. Comfortable - yes, but getting less so each year as a larger percentage of our income goes to Uncle Sam every year. The truly rich do not pay taxes. The upper middle class are getting creamed.
I hear Costa Rica is nice. If pushed hard enough, I guess I would consider it, but I’m not ready to give up on this country yet.
Costa Rica is surrounded by commie enemies on all sides. It is no longer safe to go there.
not necessarily. 52% of people think Obama and the dems will give them a free ride.
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