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To: ArrogantBustard
It's also not a flat tax. It's a very steep "progressive" tax...Family brings home precisely $100K. Tax bill = $10K; they keep $90K...Family brings home $100,001. Tax bill = $25,000.25; they keep $74,999.75

It's certainly a progressive rather than a flat tax, though flatter and without deductions, much like Reagan's changes.

Your example is wrong, there's no tax on the first $25,000 (standard deduction), 10% on the next $100m, 25% over that. Your example, taxes would be $7,500 10% of the $60m over the exemption, not $25m.

The plan was initially developed by the House of Representatives Republican Study Committee. And obviously it's only a portion of proposed reform, which includes lowered corporate rates, elimination of the AMT, 15% capital gains and repeal of the death tax, since the option of using the old system still exists.

38 posted on 12/11/2007 11:41:00 AM PST by SJackson (we're gonna change the rules and have voting only on the Internet, then we're gonna win!, Ron Paul)
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THANKS GUYS!!! I GOT IT NOW.

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41 posted on 12/11/2007 11:43:53 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: SJackson

Oh, yes ... the rest of the tax reform package looks pretty good, too.


42 posted on 12/11/2007 11:44:56 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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