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Apparently the latest gambit, a week before the election, is for John McCain and Sarah Palin to call Barak Obama a communist or socialist because he supports the progressive income tax.
I have known socialists, and Barak Obama is no socialist, for better and for worse.
(Progressive taxation I'm sure I explained before, but I'm not gonna dig up the link right now. Plus Obama's tax increase is all of three percent on the marginal income above $250K. Which means only your taxable income above $250K will be taxed at 39.something percent, rather than 36%ish it's at now.)
(And calling somebody a commie? Seriously, the hell? What is this, the 1950s?)
I have known socialists, and Barak Obama is no socialist, for better and for worse.
(Progressive taxation I'm sure I explained before, but I'm not gonna dig up the link right now. Plus Obama's tax increase is all of three percent on the marginal income above $250K. Which means only your taxable income above $250K will be taxed at 39.something percent, rather than 36%ish it's at now.)
(And calling somebody a commie? Seriously, the hell? What is this, the 1950s?)
