Posted on 09/13/2010 4:05:34 AM PDT by tobyhill
Red-district Democrats are pressuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to extend Bush-era income tax rates for all brackets, revealing a high-stakes rift between the party's vulnerable moderates and its safe liberals as the issue increasingly dominates the national debate.
POLITICO has obtained a draft of a letter from rank-and-file lawmakers to Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer urging them not to let tax rates rise for Americans at the highest income levels.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Being pelosi is just filthy..
Why doesn’t this Congress just show us how much they want to be re elected, and take a 40% pay cut, and reduce 50% the salary of the President for poor performance. This is what you do in BUSINESS.
There are a HELL of a lot of DEMOCRAT families making over $250k with several children (yes, it does happen to Democrats once in a while), who are scared to death about the $50k tuition bills (for each child) right around the corner. Likewise, there are a lot of divorced Democrats (your more typical type) making $200k and paying child support, again scared to death about tuition payments coming up. These people are in very red areas (i.e., NY, Boston, DC, LA, San Fran, Seattle, etc.)
These people are RIPE for the Republicans to pick off, but the REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS TO FIGURE THAT OUT.
My suggestion to them - get some firm to call around the wealthy suburbs (like Newton, MA, for example) and ask a few questions. You might be very surprised you hear.
Democrats challenge Nancy Pelosi on taxes (Rats still claiming $200k a year is filthy rich)
Well yeah. If you make more than $200K per, you are 'filthy rich'. After all, in five years you'll be a 'millionaire' and that's 'rich'.
Of course if you make $200k per, about 50% is taken out in combined taxes so that leaves you with only $100K a year. So now it'll take you Ten Years to clear a million.Uh.. wait a sec?Then again, there's the cost of living -- like in NYC, Chi, or SF. As you're not likely to live in the Ghetto for $500 a month so that $100K per 'clear' drops down to $70K. Gee, now it will take 14 Years Plus, to get that million in the bank.
And if you're a 'filthy breeder' and have (ugh) 'children'. Those animals will eat about $20K a year in 'stuff'. So now you're down to $50K clear per year and now it would take 20 Years to get that million in the bank.
Then.. hopefully you or anyone in your family doesn't get REALLY SICK, or those rotten (ugh) 'children' don't want to go to college as that's possibly another $10K out of pocket each year, which leaves you with $40K and it'll take 25 Years to get that cool million.
I better get a new calculator? Like the ones that the Dems use to determine 'rich'.
If you make $199,999 a year and your boss offers you a raise of $1, turn it down as quick as you can.
True.
However, since I am my own boss, that'll never happen anyway :-)
Being self-employed is great. EXCEPT, if I calculated my 'pay' per the hour there's times an Illegal Guatemalan landscaper makes more than I do.
Many 200K+ Obama supporters in liberal high income high tax coastal states would get hit too, NYC, Maryland, California. They deserve a tax increase. Still not sure how this will play out.
“Rich People” don’t bury their money in the back yard!
They, buy goods and services, hire more employees, or invest it, so it’s available for others to borrow.
All of this activity creates jobs much more efficiently than ANY government spending.
Why don’t Republicans throw this in the face of Dems?
Rats still claiming $200k a year is filthy rich.
And they’re right.
They will probably just look at the registration books and tax those registered as Republican and Independents more and give those registered as democrats a tax break. And of course the unregistered would have to show support of acorn and other left wing organizations in order to get the tax break. And if the unregistered can’t show support of the dems and libs or are found to have supported right wing or conservative organizations, they would be taxed higher too.
You know the democrats and liberals would do this, if they could.
I’ve always thought if the politicians could, they would have everyone’s paycheck direct deposited to the treasury to feed their need for power and assuage their guilt for the success of the U.S. While at the end of the week everyone regardless of whether or not they worked and earned it, would receive a bowl of rice to share with the family. Meanwhile the dems and libs would dine on filet mignon, caviar and champagne. Of course today’s filet mignon is kobi beef.
there’s a one word substitute for the terms “the rich”
it is “EMPLOYERS”
you can’t live in NYC for $500.00/month..not even a studio apt.
Considering they’ve never had to actually live on 200K per year, they are worth much, much more, they’d never know that living on 200K per year nowadays is basically comfortable, definitely NOT rich, especially NOT filthy rich.
problem is that their ‘pay’ aint why theyre interested in politics...the kickbacks and bennies are the just the tip of the iceberg...
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