[Vision2020] Vision2020 Digest, Vol 29, Issue 49

[No Weatherman]

First, he doesn't answer the question.

He gives Bush's percentage and he gives Clinton's percentage but he
does not answer the question.

Second, he calls it "chump change."

Street language to brush off the question and dismiss taxation.

No joke.


On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:30 AM, donald edwards <donaledwards at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm confused (no jokes please) How is this supposed to support your
> position?  Looks like a glaring advertisement for Obama to me.  Tuitions
> have risen like 1000% faster than inflation and incomes, Education shoud not
> be a "for profit" business that potentially excludes the person who might
> cure AIDS or cancer or the economy just because he's in a lower tax bracket
> than the social elites who don't blink at paying $50k to send little Johnny
> McCain to prep school.
>
> Don
>
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 07:18:34 -0800
> From: "No Weatherman" <no.weatherman at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Vision2020] Who?s the chump?
> To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Message-ID:
> <28a621640811040718x2bb8cf5alda61d1475880fce8 at mail.gmail.com>
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> Question: Just out of curiosity, for those that are being taxed that
> are making more than $250,000 a year, how much difference would it be
> from how they are being taxed today?
>
> Obama: Well, right now, they are getting taxed at 36 percent. Under
> Bill Clinton in the 1990s, they were being taxed at 39.6 percent. You
> are talking about a 3.6 percent difference, and for the average person
> who is making half a million, a million dollars, now people like you
> Sway, that's chump change, that's nothing. But it could make a big
> difference for that young person who is trying to figure out whether
> they can go to college or not, if we could give them more of a break
> or more scholarships or grants to go to college.
> http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1598409/20081102/story.jhtml
>
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