And, again, there are NO tax cuts. It is a welfare check disguised as “tax relief.” If it is a tax cut, Silke, then what will the rates go down to? They won’t go down? Those in all the brackets under $200K will still be at exactly the same tax rate? Goodness!

I have never engaged in class warfare. I am very much in favor of tax cuts for middle-income and lower-income Americans. I’m deeply concerned about a kind of class warfare that’s going on right now. It’s unfortunate. There’s a growing gap between the haves and have-nots in America, and that gap is growing, and it’s unfortunately divided up along ethnic lines. I feel very strongly that we ought to have middle-income and lower-income tax cuts,

You can call me crazy, but I don’t believe that someone should be punished (taxed) more for being successful. That is why jobs are being moved off shore. Now I realize you can’t just completely change the system that has rooted itself so deeply into the pockets of Joe punch clock, but there needs to be a serious shift in how taxes are assessed/paid.

Also, who decides the cutoff points? Why not place the 35% bracket on people who make $100,000 per year? Why not drop it to $75,000?

I understand that someone who makes more money would (theoretically) have more disposable income and be less affected by paying tax to the government, but how can anyone say that it is inherently fair for someone to have to pay more tax because they have more income?

The only way to be fair would be to develop a flat/or fair tax, where everyone is paying the same proportion of their income. After all, lefties are always trying to be ‘fair’.