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bpuharic

On Thu, 27 May 2010 01:57:22 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 27 May 2010 00:29:48 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Thu, 27 May 2010 00:05:38 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:45:31 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

gee. the rich folks who created this debt by taking bush's tax cuts
ARE living off other people's money

Everybody got a deal in the Bush tax cuts

which is irrelavant to the fact that

1. it's responsible for MOST of the debt

Spending is a big part of it

but not MOST of it. that's bush's fault. so put the dead cats on
bush's doorstep

2. obama had NOTHING to do with it

Not until 1/20/2009
Now it is his problem.

yep, it is. and he's doing a good job of handling it. GDP is up. more
people in the workforce. manufacturing sector is recovering...

, Almost half the people in
the US don't pay any income taxes at all. Middle class taxes are lower
than they have been in many years. Certainly the lowest they have been
in my life.

that's because the middle class hasnt had a pay increase in 10 years.
the wealthiest 1% have had their incomes triple...mostly due to
massive tax cuts in their favor

Tax cuts can't possibly account for a 3x increase in income, you are
mixing your metaphors now.

productivity has increased about 28% in the last 10 years. most of
that went to the wealthy...along with the massive tax cuts that bush
implemented.

so it's his fault the deficits are so large

I have already posted the main numbers in my return and it was about
9%. I used to plan on 18-20%.

i paid about 15% last year. and i'm middle class

You must be rich, certainly not in the same "middle class" as
"100,000,000" other people.
To be paying 15$, top line to bottom line, you have to be making $150k
or so and that puts you in the top 15 percentile of workers

uh no. much less than that. sorry. the tax rate for someone in my
bracket (under 150K) is 28% marginal rate.

read the tax codes.