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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (533088)	12/4/2009 6:49:11 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575981

Federal income tax isn't a factor Not initially but it becomes a major one as income increases. your property tax or sales tax isn't scaled to income Not directly but people with more income pay more. In any case they where NOT counted in the calculations, so arguments about them not scaling directly to income are rather irrelevant. "Not maximizing your other possible benefits could, but subtract 25% off the effective marginal rate (a huge change) and your still facing rates of 50 to 100%" Where did you get the 25%? Oh, that is right. Hand waving again. If you think its more show why. In any case the point still holds if you drop 50 percent (either percent or percentage points, the result is similar from a starting point in the area of 100%), and you still have a serious issue for many (not so much those at the bottom of with an effective marginal rate in the 25% area, but for those still over 50%, esp. those well over.)