tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post6904594352727760689..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Fiscal Cliff – Republican Senators Negotiating with President RomneyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-376509550110976032012-11-27T09:26:05.361-05:002012-11-27T09:26:05.361-05:00PGL: a minor quibble: that should be "rein in...PGL: a minor quibble: that should be "rein in" deficits, not "reign in." I hope you don't bridle at this correction. Happy Trails! (-;kevin quinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04880872194080353414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-11480968577653521282012-11-26T19:27:02.486-05:002012-11-26T19:27:02.486-05:00The Ryan Roadmap to Prosperity, signed onto by pre...The Ryan Roadmap to Prosperity, signed onto by pretty much the entire economic right, holds it as a fundamental tenet that individual returns on capital should not be taxed at all. That is Ryan would eliminate all tax on interest, dividends, estates and capital gains generally. While this is sold as a "savings" plan ostensibly aimed at the middle class, it reduces effective rates for billionaires to zero with LESS tax break as you go down the income ladder to mere millionaires and then to pensioners. In so doing the Romney's and Lindsay's of this world literally subvert and invert the very concept of "rich".<br /><br />Flat Tax and all forms of. "Broaden and Flatten" add upto Tax Freedom Days for Billionaires. The only odd thing is that the 96-99% ers blindly go along with the 0.1% folk. Iafter all even for the 99% of income folk there isn't THAT much room at the top of the top. But. Are willing to give the billionaires a free ride anyway.<br /><br />While there are a couple of honest to God billionaires in elected office they mostly lean to the Center-Left. While Lindsay and Saxby (despite their tony names) aren't remotely up with Rockefeller and Kerry (more properly Kerry's wife and step-kids)Bruce Webbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13222670342780912788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-13988575374873742172012-11-26T16:29:23.290-05:002012-11-26T16:29:23.290-05:00While tax rates can be changed in an instant, it i...While tax rates can be changed in an instant, it is virtually impossible to imagine the hornet's nest one would enter in order to tinker with deductions, each of which comes with its own Revolutionary Guard sworn to preserve and defend.Greedy Trial Lawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17225977637304118712noreply@blogger.com