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To: Slyscribe

How can you have a 119% tax rate?.......


3 posted on 07/20/2011 4:19:40 PM PDT by Red Badger (PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
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To: Red Badger

The capital gains rate is currently 20%. Increasing it by 119% means it would then be 43.8%


7 posted on 07/20/2011 4:23:49 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: Red Badger
How can you have a 119% tax rate?.......

You can't however you can have an increase of 119% from existing taxes.

9 posted on 07/20/2011 4:25:18 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Red Badger

It think they mean it will increase 119%.

But then again, the normal laws of mathematics do not apply in DC.


43 posted on 07/21/2011 7:33:51 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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