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-- Google. The left-wing Internet giant provided Silicon Valley's biggest campaign finance boost to Obama, with individual employee donations supporting the tax-hiking candidate by a ratio of more than 31-to-1. Google rank-and-file workers pitched in some $800,000 to Obama. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President David Drummond, and Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf are all vocal Obama supporters and top donors.
Section 317 of the freshly approved legislation includes an extension for "special expensing rules for certain film and television productions." Congress first enacted production tax incentives favorable to the domestic entertainment industry in 2004, and extended them in 2008, but the deal was meant to expire in 2011.
The fiscal cliff deal extends the tax incentives through 2013--even as payroll taxes rise on ordinary Americans.
More than 80 percent of households with incomes between $50,000 and $200,000 would pay higher taxes. Among the households facing higher taxes, the average increase would be $1,635, the policy center said. A 2 percent payroll tax cut, enacted during the economic slowdown, is being allowed to expire as of yesterday.
Originally posted by CALGARIAN
Dude, 2% of your population pays 50% of your entire nations taxes.
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
If someone works hard in school and gets a bunch of certifications and works his arse off why shouldn't he reap more rewards and get taxed the same as others?
Life rewards hard work!
Originally posted by Junkheap
So, does a billionaire work billions of times harder than the rest of us?
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by CALGARIAN
Dude, 2% of your population pays 50% of your entire nations taxes.
There's no logic in that statement no matter how true that is.
What percentage to they pay is the question.
The 2/98% only depics a gap between rich and middle class.
It doesn't say anything about how much % each pay.
Give me that stat!
If someone works hard in school and gets a bunch of certifications and works his arse off why shouldn't he reap more rewards and get taxed the same as others?
Life rewards hard work!
Originally posted by CosmicCitizen
reply to post by CosmicCitizen
I am for a relatively flat tax....tax exempt income up to a middle class standard then a sharply progressive scale up to say 15% then relatively flat trajectory up to maybe 20% for super high incomes. If a citizen makes a $100,000,000 he still will pay more than 1000 X what an individual who makes $100,000 will and probably does not use much more in government services.