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Old 12-08-2010, 07:20 AM  
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Originally Posted by theking View Post
When the tax cuts...during President Bush's administration...were first put in place...Warren Buffet stated that in the first year of the cuts it would put $300,000,000 million dollars in his pocket and that he would not create a single job with the additional $300,000,000 million.

From the end of the Second World War until President Kennedy became President...the tax rate on the wealthy was 92% and it was during these same years that the biggest growth in our economy...housing boom and middle class growth took place...and the wealthy just kept getting more and more wealthy.
What does any of this have to do with the couple that is making $250k paying more taxes, the mega-billionaire exploiting loopholes that he complains about, and the rationale behind raising taxes on those that, in "common knowledge", avoid taxes anyway?
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