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Wow! And that from someone that probably values what Sarah Palin has to say. Matthew Iglesias is a Harvard graduate, with honors, I might say, Magna Cum Laude who was Editor in Chief of the Harvard Independent and other campus publications. He was a staff writer for American Prospect, and The Atlantic Monthly. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, made appearances on TV and radio as a political commentator and won the Hillman Prize in 2007 (a journalist award).
Can you say that about Glenn Beck? Sarah Palin? (doesn't she claim to have a journalist's degree?
His opinion may be left, but not drivel. That would be Glenn Beck with the drivel.
We have progressive tax rates. They make the most money - of course they pay the most money - DUH! But, their rates are a lot lower!
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 — Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush’s tax cuts, according to a new Congressional study.
The study, by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, also shows that tax rates for middle-income earners edged up in 2004, the most recent year for which data was available, while rates for people at the very top continued to decline.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/washington/08tax.html
1) find a quote of mine that backs up your idiotic lie that I somehow am a disciple of Sarah Palin. I am amused that she causes the loony left such issues though
2) I was an equivalent graduate of Yale plus I have Masters and Law degrees. Thus what I say is more valuable than that guy using your criteria. he has an opinion, no more valuable than someone with the same or better education. He writes-BFD-what did he do that gives him expertise? Its like someone testifying in a malpractice case who has a medical degree and has never practiced medicine, only written about it. I will give you a clue-people like that rarely make it past the judge.
3) I oppose a progressive tax system mainly because it gives politicians too much power and allows those with no skin in the game to jack up the taxes of others. Just because something exists doesn't make it right.
4) people making a million a year pay far far more taxes than the vast majority of the voters. they get absolutely no additional benefits from the government over what you get. if you don't want the rich to get big tax cuts above what you get, then don't call for the rich to pay such idiotically high taxes