tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post115207825078644907..comments2024-01-28T00:20:40.933-08:00Comments on Agoraphilia: Slicing Up the Tax PieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1152209063657229292006-07-06T11:04:00.000-07:002006-07-06T11:04:00.000-07:00Tom -- thanks, I've fixed the typo. I'll look int...Tom -- thanks, I've fixed the typo. I'll look into the marginal tax rates suggestion. <BR/><BR/>Anon -- "You've made me hate him even more, if that's possible." I think that says a lot more about you than it does about the tax cuts. Are tax cuts aimed at the poor the only tax cuts you'd ever support? Across-the-board tax cuts are unacceptable?<BR/><BR/>RR -- I see you behind the mustache, Trumpit. (And I think you might be Anon, too.)Glen Whitmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01425907466575991113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1152207966561879762006-07-06T10:46:00.000-07:002006-07-06T10:46:00.000-07:00I don't know what marginal means, but thank you fo...I don't know what marginal means, but thank you for proving that President Bush cares equally about the poor as he does about the rich. I always knew he was a fair man. I voted for him twice. Aren't rich folks the ones who create all the good, high-paying jobs out in the economy anyway. By all means, they deserve a big tax break. Liberals just don't get it. The guys and gals at Taco Bell don't create any jobs at all as far as I can tell. Economics is a very difficult subject, so thank you for disproving all that propaganda about Bush hating the poor at the expense of the rich. Why isn't your common sense universal?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1152197500661761012006-07-06T07:51:00.000-07:002006-07-06T07:51:00.000-07:00You write: "Suppose I earn $100,000, you earn $20...You write: "Suppose I earn $100,000, you earn $20,000, and each of us faces a tax rate of 20%. Then you pay $20,000 and I pay $4000 in taxes." Did you get your pronouns switched in that second sentence?<BR/><BR/>A third pie chart, one showing the change in marginal rates, would prove the clincher, I think.Tom W. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790351458154066358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1152120062449574562006-07-05T10:21:00.000-07:002006-07-05T10:21:00.000-07:00I love the colorful pie charts!But by your own num...I love the colorful pie charts!<BR/>But by your own numbers, the rich got the bulk of the benefits. So why are you trying to defending that? So what if they pay the bulk of the tax revenue, or if the reductions are proportional to what's paid in. <BR/><BR/>Like you remark parenthetically, "unless the reductions are aimed specifically at the poor." Well, you know that wasn't Bush's goal. He wanted to give billions back to his rich supporters (as promised). You want me not to hate him for that? You've made me hate him even more, if that's possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com