Income Tax Rates Under "Bill"... Remember?

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Quote from gnome:

Sometimes you just wonder why things like this never show up on the mainstream media.


Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008

Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500

Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500

Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750

Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000

Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750

Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250

If you want to know just how effective the mainstream media is, it is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If any democrat is elected, ALL of them say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.

You're wasting your breath Gnome (though I enjoy your commentary)

Baby needs a new pair of shoes and we are going to pay for them.

What Prez(let alone Congress) is going to have the balls to cut one freaking social program?

Inflate or Tax. Rome is burning. Where is my fiddle?

 

[Cutten]

Quote from gnome:

I ABSOFRICKIN'-LUTELY agree. Bush has done GREAT harm to the US by promoting his PERSONAL agenda at taxpayer expense.

By "charging" it to us (increased national debt), most Americans don't see nor fully understand what he's done. However, I wouldn't feel any better if our taxes had been sky-high to pay for the war in Iraq and all the other profligate items Congress spends money on, willy nilly.

Nor will I feel better if a DemoCrap President and legislature taxes the crap out of me for their own profligate spending.... even if it leads to a balanced budget.

So if you concede that deficit spending is basically increased taxation, doesn't that mean Clinton actually taxed the US at a *lower* proportion of GDP than Bush?