[92nina]

Despite calls for a "Buffett Rule," the tax code is already steeply-progressive. Most taxes in America are paid by top earners, who face the highest tax rates.

Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at Digg and at Reddit and in Stumbleupon and Delicious

[Son House]

Go to the Republican budget proposal of 10% and 25% progressive rates too, they shouldn’t get a pass on offering Liberal Solutions either.

[Gunslingr3]

I’m in favor of repealing the 16th amendment and restoring uniformity to direct taxation as originally proscribed in the Constitution, but I don’t understand the numbers presented here for the ‘middle income’ quintile.
Is anyone on this board making $65k and paying an effective income tax rate <4%?

[IronJack]

So much for “equal protection under the law.”

[andy58-in-nh]

In the next eight hours, the Federal Government will spend more than all of the additional annual revenue collected under the so-called “Buffett Rule”.

[TurboZamboni]

Bump for later