Ha! A different source does not necessarily mean its the correct source. Its strictly your opinion that the NYT is more accurate than the Congressional Record.
Its more likely to me the Congressional Record is correct at $93,000.
Congressional Record - Google Books
Which ever you go, the top tax class get more in tax breaks each year than a Wisconsin teacher's salary!!! We simply can't afford to keep providing those kind of tax cuts to those that need them least, while the middle class declines and our debt grows. As your own article points out:
"Mr. Bush and his Republican allies in Congress want to permanently extend that tax cut and almost all of the others that Congress passed in his first term.
The cost of doing that would be more than $1 trillion over the next decade, a cost that would hit the Treasury at the same time that the spending on old-age benefits for retiring baby boomers begins to soar."
Where in the f**k are you living??? Bush hasn't been in office in over 2 years, congress has been controlled by Democrats for over 4 years. It was Obama and your liberals in the houses that passed the extension of tax cuts. Not Bush and Republicans.
As for her source, the NY Times can hardly be called a conservative newspaper, it's widely known for it's liberalism. So if anything the I'd say the $58,000 was still a high end figure. Your 100 dollar figure is just pure nonsense.
Details of the Bush 2003 Tax Cut Plan
Under the Bush tax cut plan, 92 million taxpayers would receive, on average, a tax cut of $1,083 in 2003. Taxpayers in the lowest tax brackets would receive the largest percentage reduction in their taxes
http://tax.cchgroup.com/news/taxbrief_01-08.pdf
For 2003, the standard deduction for joint filers would increase from $7,950 to $9,500.
The top dollar amount in the 15
percent bracket would increase
from $47,450 to $56,800. For
coupl e s abov e the 15 pe rc ent
bracket, that’s at least a 10 percentage point savings on this latter difference (25 percent bracket
ov e r the 15 pe rc ent brac k e t ) ,
which when combined with at
least a 25 percent bracket savings on the increase in the standard d e d u c t i o n , e q u a l s a t l e a s t $1,322.50 in the pocket of marriedcouples filing joint returns.
What the tax extension means for me | The Washington Post
There is another one that shows the lowest earners (under $19,356) have gained $539.00 those making under $37493 see a $808.00 savings .
Of course I understand that no amount of facts will change a closed mind, bet even a closed mind doesn't change the facts.
