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

To: Bill who wrote (593828)	11/21/2010 2:52:35 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578965

And your point is in here somewhere? "To be honest, the marginal rate increase is not going to finish off the economy. It's the stuff they're not talking about (dividends, cap gains, fica, amt, estate, etc.) that will bring us to depression " Once again, the simple fact is the amount of tax paid as a % of AGI......and don't start adding fica, estate, etc. We are talking about annual income taxes....it was you wailing about the marginal tax rate going to 39.6% and I'm maintaining that you rich guys don't pay anywhere close to that.... Cap gains tax is even lower than the %of AGI I showed... AMT is designed to require those who would pay no taxes pay a minimum amount... So I still don't understand why the hue and cry over marginal tax rates for the wealthy....they never pay it.