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Millionaires from Mass. join call to raise their tax rates
Boston Globe ^ | April 16, 2012 | Callum Borchers

Posted on 04/16/2012 4:17:09 AM PDT by GQuagmire

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To: GQuagmire

They don’t understand the unfair money grab by government is ruining our economy. Leaving fewer jobs and opportunity.


41 posted on 04/16/2012 6:29:31 AM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: maryz

The likes of John Kerry certainly don’t. Neither do I. (In addition to the box, at one point you may be asked to figure out your tax rate by multiplying one figure by .053 or
.058. A very small number of people pay at the higher
rate and the folks who advocate higher taxes certainly don’t.

While I’m at it, a couple years ago I was visiting New
Orleans and the talk host down there at Rush Radio, John
Osterlind (who used to do mornings at WRKO) was all over
a certain MA citizen (who lives off his second wife’s
first husband’s trust fund) who, um, didn’t pay taxes
on his boat. Yes, that would be one John Kerry.


42 posted on 04/16/2012 6:35:25 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: GQuagmire
Villers went on to earn degrees from Harvard and MIT and to cofound Computervision

Also no appreciation for the US Constitution, that allows for every individual to live up to their full potential. No where else in history has this happened so many times. Only in America, under the US Constitution.
43 posted on 04/16/2012 6:37:57 AM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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The US tax code's top income tax rate is 35 percent

while his secretary pays 35.8 percent

If the top marginal rate is 35%, how does his secretary, or anybody, have a 35.8% effective tax rate?

44 posted on 04/16/2012 6:45:16 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (I <3 PEJSWDTDSOPC)
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To: GQuagmire
To the Millionaires from Massachusetts, it's none of your business what other folks pay in taxes. Pay more on your own if that's your prerogative.
45 posted on 04/16/2012 6:45:41 AM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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I guess that it would be too much to ask for Phil to just quietly send all of the money he don’t want to the U.S. Government without having to make a big production number out of it. No one is stopping him from doing that. Just shut up and send the check, Phil!


46 posted on 04/16/2012 6:46:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare is like a stool sample. You have to pass it to find out what's in it.)
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To: sickoflibs; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; Impy
put up a ‘I want to pay my fair share’ bill

thats really what i was getting at, sarcastically, of course...didnt somebody actually put up a bill like that last yr ???

*IF* these guys werent playin kabuki with the commies, these simple and obvious arguments would be forthcoming en masse, rather than just allowing the talking points to continue to dumb down the electorate...

the simple math of what every man, woman and child in the country has to pay operate the [lack of] budget should be hammered daily, and the people should quickly realize that 100% confiscation of all private wealth wouldnt float the boat into the near future...

we're tossing ourselves, and kids, into the mouth of a hungry beast, and expecting it to be satisfied, and in fact, voluntarily go on a diet ???

most people just ASSume theyll be eaten last...especially those pesky 'millionaires' that have lawyers that are very well paid to hide money, no matter what the rate for everyone else...

even if they cant hide it, the worthless dollars are simply sucked out of the consumer/employee pocket anyways...

Im not a Dr of econ...dont even play one on tv, but the simpe math is really too easy to scream it from the House floor, daily...unless, as you said, the surrender/complicity with evil is a given...

47 posted on 04/16/2012 6:56:20 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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RE :”put up a ‘I want to pay my fair share’ bill .
...
thats really what i was getting at, sarcastically, of course...didnt somebody actually put up a bill like that last yr ???

NO ! Last year I started posting the idea for them in comments, but the Boehner House just loves being whipped so they just hide like frightened mice.

The idea came from a bill Huckabee signed in AK in the early 1990s as governor and I heard about it on Rush's TV show back then and thought it was great idea. It was called the :”Tax me more” bill.

Class warfare is not new, but Republicans unwillingness to fight back is.

48 posted on 04/16/2012 7:12:35 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : "I will just make insurance companies give you health care for 'free, What Mandates??' ")
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Republicans? Where?


49 posted on 04/16/2012 7:39:47 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: GQuagmire
Computervision? Really? Man did that CAD software suck

Go back to France, maybe they can use you at CATIA, another FUBAR package...

50 posted on 04/16/2012 7:43:08 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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51 posted on 04/16/2012 8:08:21 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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Now that Villers has already benefited from low capital gains tax he will increase it for those on their way up.


52 posted on 04/16/2012 8:09:50 AM PDT by Mr. Peabody
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To: GQuagmire

Hmm. No mention of what his taxable income is.


53 posted on 04/16/2012 8:11:14 AM PDT by andyk (Go Juan Pablo!)
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To: GQuagmire
Philippe Villers was a little boy in 1940..

And he's a selfish old scumbag now.
Get out your checkbook and write a check, Phil. Make it out to "US Treasury". How hard could that be?

54 posted on 04/16/2012 8:13:27 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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55 posted on 04/16/2012 8:19:39 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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John F’n Kerry paid the lower MA Tax rate while he was running for President. Probably still does.
56 posted on 04/16/2012 8:24:33 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (A day without Obama is like a day without a Tsunami.)
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To: GQuagmire

They should send the IRS a check and shut up about it!


57 posted on 04/16/2012 8:56:38 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: GQuagmire
What is wrong with these people?

They're suffering from "kleptomania by proxy" ... they want the government to steal from you.

If they were serious about paying more, they'd simply write a check payable to "Treasury of the United States", for whatever amount they want to pay beyond the taxes they currently owe.

58 posted on 04/16/2012 9:00:38 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: andyk
Massachusetts offers state income tax filers the option of paying the mandatory 5.3% flat rate, or paying the old 5.85% rate which prevailed before the income tax was cut by a 60% to 40% referendum vote.

Foolish people might think that those 40% of voters would still pay the old rate, but needless to say, almost nobody in the state has ever paid the 5.85% rate, especially rich liberals.

Democrats Love Taxes -- They Just Don't Want to Pay Them

59 posted on 04/16/2012 9:44:26 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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"There is a box in the Mass. State Tax return that you can check if you want to pay a higher rate. Almost nobody does."

Gee golly. Color me shocked. :)

60 posted on 04/16/2012 12:18:56 PM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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