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Default Brown Wins, Democrats bit the dust

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:04:58 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:43:41 -0500, bpuharic wrote:

The capital gains tax applies equally to everyone. The "middle class"
can buy and sell securities just like the "ultra rich".


capital gains, however, dont

another sign of the delusion of the right wing


Actually the cap gains tax under Bush favors the bottom 2 brackets (
$65k) with a 5% rate and that is pro rated.


except, of course, those in this bracket have no capital gains. ah
well, another right wing truism shot to hell

the middle class works for a living. the GOP steals for a living

I dare say there are a lot of people in the middle class who buy and
sell stocks and they got a great tax break from this.


i dare say there aren't.