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	Name:	GoneFishin -
	Subject:	Comment by Rush
	Date:	11/4/2010 12:34:53 PM

"Where does all this talk start? Because all this is nothing more than a direct attack on liberty, a direct attack on freedom and it creates class envy and resentment and anger between the classes, between people of different income groups.

So all of a sudden we’re faced with a possibility here of the Bush tax cuts ending for people who earn $250,000 a year or more. Well, why are we even discussing it in the first place? What did those people do? What is the magic? Who sets arbitrarily this figure of $250,000 a year? Why are they targeted? "

It is really just a reset of the marginal tax rates and one may agree or disagree. He seems to forget that we have a progressive tax now that we have lived with for many years. The marginal rate and income levels can be adjusted by congress. The increase in marginal tax over $250,000 is no more a direct attack on liberty than the Bush tax cut was some great mission on behalf of liberty. What we need is a flat tax with an earned income refund for those below a specfic level of income and do away with most deductions.