For the record, the team from Pi Pizzeria/St. Louis -- Ryan Mangialardo, Chris Sommers, and Anne Schuermann -- paid their own round-trip way to DC and paid for the ingredients they were allowed to bring along to make 20 thin-crust and 20 deep dish pizzas. For security reasons, they had to use White House versions of a few ingredients that they did not pay for.
Hahahahaha! Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys. Well, in my case at least. And of course that 3.8% Medicare surcharge applies only to the lesser of your unearned (investment) income and the amount by which your AGI exceeds $250,000.00. If you have any of it, you'll also owe a 0.9% surcharge on earned income above $250,000.00 on a joint return. Some high-income two-earner families may want to look at filing separately for 2013 on account of this.
Who claims that? Nearly all the taxes in PPACA are focused on the upper income brackets. But what happens for many borderline upper-income filers ($100K to $500K) re the Bush tax cuts will depend more on what at the same time happens to the AMT. Meanwhile, those Medicare surcharges are exactly the right policy -- a pressing financial need being met by those who can afford it most. We need more of that. The bubble-world of the mega- amd über-wealthy needs to burst, just gently enough so that they can have a soft-landing back on earth.
LOL! Actually, Chris Sommers went on the total-joke Fox & Friends morning show shortly after the White House event specifically to shoot down the stupid right-wing bunk about his trip. Not that the facts mattered much to those idiots. But you might still have learned the actual first-hand details there. You might even have learned that the business uptick from all the positive publicity had caused him to hire 15 new employees. You might even have found out that the pizza served in the Roosevelt Room had included the pesto-flavored "East Loop", the vegetarian "Berkeley," and the "Bucktown," which is topped with roasted chicken. There was also a custom pizza, the "Hyde Park", with Buffalo wing hot sauce made specially for the President, an obsessive when it comes to hot sauce.
