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In reply to the discussion: Questions about unemployment from a conservative. [View all]JHB
(37,158 posts)16. Would this "fundamentally transform America"?:
24 income tax brackets. For a married couple filing jointly:
16 of those brackets only affect incomes over $250,000
11 of them only affect incomes over $500,000
The top rate affects income over $3.5 million.
The tax rates run from 20% at the bottom to 91% at the highest bracket (the 3.5 million one).
Is that 'socialist'? Is that 'communist'?
It's the US income tax code that was in effect in 1955, adjusted for inflation. Before the "Great Society" programs, in the thick of the Cold War.
Is she one of those people who thought Ike was a communist?
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See? They're completely dependent on him to excuse their daily behavior.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#43
Did Jesus want to make people dependent? What other motivation could he have had?
Bandit
Dec 2013
#14
It's pointless because she's framing the ( very loaded ) questions through her own confirmation bias
Populist_Prole
Dec 2013
#15
Have you stopped beating your children yet? Loaded questions based on false assumptions.
uppityperson
Dec 2013
#19
Another thought: These aren't "questions" at all. It's more akin to a "push poll"
Populist_Prole
Dec 2013
#23
Those questions are only important to someone who has an agenda to sell for their own profit.
haele
Dec 2013
#32
She thinks Obama is fundamentally trying to change America and then calls *you* brainwashed?
pa28
Dec 2013
#37