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Originally posted by taxwonk
The only point that I thought was being debated, and it's demonstrated by the table you posted as well, Bilmore, it that the top 20% bracket got proportionally higher breaks that the 60thand 80th percentiles, the middle class.
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The point I thought you were making was that the lower-and-middle-classes got screwed out of a tax break that only the rich ended up with. This shows that the "rich" ended up paying a higher portion of the taxes collected than they did before. Sort of contradicts your repeated cries that no one but the rich got a break, doesn't it?
This makes me think that you don't really care about the numbers, or the reality, at all. As long as you can find some statistic that seems to let the "rich" "get away with something", you are incensed. Or, more accurately, you can find a more acceptable reason to be incensed than the real one - your party lost to the hated Bush.
If all the Kerry people simply put their hated tax break into an envelope and sent it in to their own choice of charity, I'm betting we could have wiped out poverty. But, no, that wouldn't be possible, because the fact that the enemy is getting away with something is far more important than the facial excuse of "we love the disadvantaged, and you hate them".
