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To: newgeezer
"Today, 96% of income taxes are shouldered by the top 50% of wage earners. Tomorrow? Figure the top 45%, or 40%. Does this sound like the conservative thing to do?"

You have just unwittingly stumbled upon the Libs' Game Plan. Their plan is to have all the income taxes paid by less than 50% of the voting-age populace. When that happens, they figger, tax cuts as a campaign issue will be OVER.

Jeff Greenfield had a very interesting bit to say on Errin' Brown's NewsNight on CNN last night - especially since it was Jeff Greenfield and that it was CNN. He said that the Dems are barking up the wrong tree on the class warfare angle - that they're still stuck in a kind of late 1940's mentality when refering to the "rich" as those making $100,000 a year. Back then, he said, that was a lot of money - but TODAY it's just a middle-level manager. Plus, he said, there's another angle the Dems are forgetting. The poor may not have much NOW, but they want their KIDS and their GRANDKIDS to be RICH. And they DON'T want their grandkids to be denied a chance to be rich - and then have it all taxed away when they get there.

You can visit CNN's transcript page and find the exact exchange. I was, for once, flabbergasted.

Michael

24 posted on 01/08/2003 2:20:00 PM PST by Wright is right!
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To: Wright is right!
You have just unwittingly stumbled upon the Libs' Game Plan. Their plan is to have all the income taxes paid by less than 50% of the voting-age populace. When that happens, they figger, tax cuts as a campaign issue will be OVER.

Sure, as it applies to income taxes. But, their next plan I'm sure involves making payroll taxes progressive. You know, "From each according to his ability...."

Plus, he said, there's another angle the Dems are forgetting. The poor may not have much NOW, but they want their KIDS and their GRANDKIDS to be RICH. And they DON'T want their grandkids to be denied a chance to be rich - and then have it all taxed away when they get there.

Now, if many liberals -- poor or not -- give a hoot about what taxes their grandkids might have to pay, that would surprise me. I'm sure those who do give it any thought rationalize it such that, if their grandkids are fortunate enough to be rich, they'll owe it to their grandkids' less-fortunate contemporaries to shoulder the tax burden, just like today's 'rich' owe it to them. I think Greenfield gives them way too much credit.

26 posted on 01/08/2003 2:47:46 PM PST by newgeezer (A conservative who conserves.)
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To: Wright is right!
You have just unwittingly stumbled upon the Libs' Game Plan. Their plan is to have all the income taxes paid by less than 50% of the voting-age populace. When that happens, they figger, tax cuts as a campaign issue will be OVER.

Just five years ago the above would have been considered absurd ---- today however, that just might be their plan.

32 posted on 01/09/2003 4:51:26 AM PST by Willing To Listen
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