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   Robert Morano said, 6 months ago

   The plan is to bring our tax code to where it was when it was working. Look at the tax rates on the wealthy during periods of economic growth, lets return to that!
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   Chillbilly said, 6 months ago

   @Robert Morano

   Thank you! Or at least consider seriously that historical data on taxes, revenues, unemployment rates, etc. shouldn’t be instantly dismissed because of oaths to unelected people like Grover Norquist.
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   narrowminded said, 6 months ago

   Under what Admin. Did the IRS receive the most revenue? GW Bush.

   “It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now … Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.”

   – John F. Kennedy, Nov. 20, 1962, president’s news conference
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   zoidknight said, 6 months ago

   @Robert Morano

   As long as we can lower the “entitlement” benefits as well.
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   Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

   The Republicans have shown they can ‘compromise’. I have yet to see a liberal note it.
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   Lynne B said, 6 months ago

   @narrowminded

   This doesn’t scale infinitely, you know. Just as tax revenues drop when people start hiding their money, when rates are too high, tax revenues also drop when the rates are too low.
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   echoraven said, 6 months ago

   Masterpiece.

   Gary, you’ll have a bear of a time topping this one!
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   Michyle Glen said, 6 months ago

   I vote for a Flat Tax Rate.
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   Jase99 said, 6 months ago

   @narrowminded

   You keep posting that quote and ignoring the fact that the top tax rate was 91% when Kennedy said it. You also ignore how well the economy performed during that time and the raising standard of living.
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    mickey1339 said, 6 months ago

    I am an objective observer: I’m an American taxpayer and a Libertarian so I have no partisan axes to grind. The reality is, taxes will go up. Done deal. The problem is no one is seriously talking about the gap between that increase in tax revenues and our deficit level. It is hundreds of billions of dollars. They have got to reduce spending, no accounting gimmicks, really decrease spending. The last agreement they came to between Obama and Bohener was a joke. It was more accounting smoke and mirrors than anything else.
    Someone has to sit down face to face, put the plans on the table and duke it out. The American people are what is at stake here, not the idiots in Washington that are more concerned with their political position than our well being…
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    disgustedtaxpayer said, 6 months ago

    Grover’s lobby for Tax Reform is supported by many Voters.
    The Pledge to oppose Tax Hikes is a pledge made by candidates TO THE VOTERS AND TAXPAYERS.
    Voters punish pledge-breakers….see GHW Bush re-election failure.
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    Obama/Dems only talk about Tax Hikes and Increasing Revenues. To pay for annual $1 trillion-plus deficits (4 in a row by Obama) and for more and expanded federal spending!
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    There are NO NEGOTIATIONS going on, in rooms open to public view. Apparently Dems are talking with other Dems about how to raise taxes, and GOP are talking with other GOP on the problem of how to get the Dems (sore winners) to focus on CUTTING SPENDING. It is also a problem that Democrats in charge broke the law 3 years and failed to pass a Budget.
    HOW CAN DEBATE ON TAXES/SPENDING TAKE PLACE WITHOUT A BUDGET TO WORK FROM????
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    Lynne B said, 6 months ago

    @ScottPM

    Wow, that was kind of simpleminded on your part.

    
    First, I wasn’t putting words in anyone’s mouth; I was pointing out that “raising revenue by cutting taxes” doesn’t scale infinitely. Period. It’s a simple statement. If you tax too highly, people will hide their money and revenue drops. If you tax at too low a rate, however, you just can’t raise any money. It’s not frikkin’ rocket science. You’re the one who decided to read into it that I was saying that narrowminded made a claim about scaling infinitely.

    
    Second, assuming that the religious tithe is a good guideline assumes that (a) they did any more analysis than “that’s a nice simple number that everyone understands, doesn’t involve a lot of bickering, and we can enforce”, and (b) that it holds any more sense than any other religious doctrine, aside from that.

    
    I prefer listening to people who have actually studied, you know, economics.
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    Lynne B said, 6 months ago

    Here is something to think about — Conservatives make a big deal out of the fact that businesses abandon “liberal” California for Texas. The reason that “liberal” California is in such a mess, though, is a purely “Conservative” tax law, California Proposition 13 (1978), which strangled California’s ability to raise tax revenue, and which has created a massive infrastructure crisis plus massive unfairness to new residents.
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    I Play One On TV said, 6 months ago

    Since churches have been brought up, we should all remember that religeous organizations pay no taxes. Do Republicans consider them to be moochers and takers? Just wondering…..
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    Radish said, 6 months ago

    @Lynne B

    Your right, Prop 13 was another republican disaster.
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