Who on MyLot makes over $225,000 and will get a tax increase

Clarus you are right... he did say $250,000. One problem I had with using that number was in the article I read, it said that it would actually go up for the person who had an income of $213,000. Ahhhhh well, Obama lied ... Don't tell Kennyrose. I did hate to say that in this forum but the truth has won out. :-) Thanks for the tolerance. :-) I am not sure how these different articles come up with such wide differences.

Well, my image is based on WaPo's reporting of the non-partisan Tax Policy Center's analysis of both candidates' tax plans, just so you know. Do you remember where the article you mentioned is from? Or even better, could you link to it, so I can take a look? I'm curious now.

It is the first link I used in the original post. It was CBS News.

"Why is is class warefare? If you give large breaks to corporations isn't that stealing from the poor to give to the rich?" You don't get it. It's class warfare because Obama wants to take more from the rich to give to the poor. Giving breaks to corporations means they pay less taxes, while still paying more than everyone else. Poor people are getting money out of the pot that they didn't put in under Obama's plan. "Who has benefited the most from the huge tax cuts and deficit spending." Everyone benefited from the tax cuts to some degree. Nobody benefited from deficit spending. "Who is that stealing from? Wouldn't the whole thing be just better if we paid taxes based on our ability to pay." Deficit spending is the government stealing from itself. We already do pay taxes based on what we are able to pay. Taxes are progressive meaning the higher your tax bracket, the larger percentage you pay. People in the lowest tax bracket aren't paying taxes. If they file properly they will get all their tax dollars back. Under Obama's plan they would get more than they paid back. As I said though, it doesn't matter. He may raise taxes on the rich, but he can't afford to give the tax cuts to anyone now and even he's admitted that it's not likely to work.

I believer there is another point that we should consider. There is a very large deficit hanging over all of our heads. There probably won't be any tax cuts for any of us. The large corporations and wealthy will probably have a lot of the tax loopholes plugged. My brother is an accountant for a large corporation and it is his job to look for these loopholes so his company will pay as little tax as possible. If by some dastardly chance that McCain and Palin are elected to serve us in the White House, they will have a terrible time trying to pass anything to protect the wealthy. The Democratic Congress won't pass anything to benefit them. It will be a stalemate. When Bush and Cheney were able to convince us that Iraq had WMD's and it was the right thing to go to war in Iraq (using their twisted lies), they claimed the oil that came out of the Iraqi wells would pay for the war. Just another lie, it didn't happen. When we pull out of Bush's mess over there we will be able to start reducing our national debt and not until we pull out will that happen. One billion a month can run up a debt pretty quick. You don't have to be an accountant or a mathematical wizard to figure that out. McCain stated a while back that we would be over there at least another ten years. We have alienated all of the Arab countries and they no longer respect the United States. I spent a year in Saudi when I was in the service and believe me, we don't understand the arab nation!

Why is is class warefare? If you give large breaks to corporations isn't that stealing from the poor to give to the rich? Who has benifited the most from the huge tax cuts and deficit spending. Who is that stealing from? Wouldn't the whole thing be just better if we paid taxes based on our ability to pay. You commented on the ability of either candidate to give the tax cuts in the current economic climate. It my be tough as we eventually have to pay all this debt they have created the past 8 years. When it comes to paying it, with $4.00 gasoline, I think it is more likely that the wealthy making over a quarter of a million a year will be more able to foot the bill for the increased taxes than the person stuggling to pay the morgage. I agree about how bad it must be if one lived in a very expensive city. Ouch...

I agree... If anyone will pay me $250,000 I will give even half of it to the tax man.

Cameleon... what is your source? My source was the first link at the top of the post ... CBS News.

But seriously, Annie, didn't you look at that chart? According to the bottom line figures, McCain's plan will give average tax cuts of over $1,000 for the American taxpayer and Obama's will only give average tax cuts of about $300. So McCain's plan benefits taxpayers the most, right? It's so easy to twist facts around, especially if you're willing to splice words together to come up with something that's factual but untruthful - and you've got a core of people who are willing to accept your twisted facts as the absolute truth because they have faith in you.

These accusations that Obama would raise taxes even for the lower class are flat out lies and can easily be misproven if people would just do their homework. I get annoyed because they say it over and over on the media and nobody corrects them

I agree... I don't see how MyLot has anyone that is a super conservative. The taxes is only one issue. What about health care? More jobs created through environmental innovation? The huge deficite created by the sitting republicans.

Hey Easyside.... I am making over a million. .... I didn't say a million what. Well I know you really want to know, over a million rupes. That is about $21,000. :-) Just kidding. I agree ... I am suprised one can get anyone to take the other side.

me too... I also hate depressions...

Wow... you have been listening to the party line too much. In 1992 the budget deficit was $290 billion with a projected deficit of $455 billion. Instead over those eight years of the democrats they REDUCED the national debt by $360 billion. When Clinton left office the national debt was something like 5.4 trillion. Now jump to 2008. We are finishing with eight years of a Republican. Bush proposed a budget with a deficit of $400 billion for this year and next. (And that doesn't account for the current financial crisis.) That is a swing of almost $800 billion (positive to negative territory) It is expect that the national debt will be 9.7 trillon by the time Bush leaves. Now, please tell me how Democrats are Spend and Tax? To me the Republicans have become "Spend and Don't Pay for It." http://edition.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/09/27/clinton.surplus/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/04/ST2008020401044.html

But Zhuuraan, have you followed any of the http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/ It is an independed watch-dog that looks at what the candidates are saying. Go and read more carefully who is telling the truth. My mother got on some right-wing email lists and was getting all kinds of "awful" stuff. Really evil sounding stuff. Go and check it out. It doesn't just tell you that someone is lying or not, it tells you the extent from a little white lie to a big wopper of a lie.

Not only is she funny, she is cute. :-) I agree about not wanting them to go outside the USA but I have lived in Bahrain, Japan, Panama and now England. By and large, the doctors and lawyers get paid a lot more in the USA than they do in those countries. I am not sure what the tax rate her in the UK is but I know it is a way lot higher than it is in the USA. If anyone pays taxes in these states, let us know what percent do you have to pay.