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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 11:38 AM Apr 2013

Jan Schakowsky to revive millionaire tax debate

"A leading liberal House Democrat will introduce a bill Thursday to hike taxes on millionaires, arguing it is needed to battle issues of inequality while pushing back against the idea that the country faces a fiscal crisis."

"The crisis that we face in this country is a crisis of equality,” she said at POLITICO's Emerging Tax Leaders event on Thursday. “I don’t believe we have a huge deficit problem; I don’t think we have a scarcity problem. We have a problem of inequality.”

"The proposal is dead on arrival in the GOP-controlled House, but it represents a continuing concern among liberals that the debate in Washington is focusing on how to cut spending, particularly in programs such as Medicare and Social Security, rather than boosting taxes on the wealthy."

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/jan-schakowsky-millionaire-taxes-debate-90628.html

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Jan Schakowsky to revive millionaire tax debate (Original Post) damnedifIknow Apr 2013 OP
I really like Schakowsky. AndyA Apr 2013 #1
Not just rules, bending the rules is for them too Look at the preference business flyers just got lunasun Apr 2013 #9
I'm a huge Jan fan! hedda_foil Apr 2013 #2
oh no! mopinko Apr 2013 #7
oh dear I puke for you lunasun Apr 2013 #10
Go Jan Schakowsky! She is awesome, and a straight shooter. emulatorloo Apr 2013 #3
I don't believe this argument will get here very far with the general population. hughee99 Apr 2013 #4
This is needed right now.I hope she is heard . If even just In Illinois, this can be a push lunasun Apr 2013 #8
How can the patently obvious be derided as liberal? lumberjack_jeff Apr 2013 #5
Go, Jan, go! City Lights Apr 2013 #6

AndyA

(16,993 posts)
1. I really like Schakowsky.
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 12:02 PM
Apr 2013

If millionaires paid the same percentage of their income in taxes that most Americans do, it would go far to addressing the debt. Schakowsky is correct when she says we have a crisis of inequality in this country. The rules are written for those with plenty of plenty, and the majority--with plenty of nothin'--get nothin'.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
9. Not just rules, bending the rules is for them too Look at the preference business flyers just got
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 01:24 PM
Apr 2013

over Head Start , Meals on Wheels etc.
I really like Schakowsky too

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
4. I don't believe this argument will get here very far with the general population.
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 12:34 PM
Apr 2013

Yes, she's correct that we have and "equality problem", but I don't think you get most Americans to agree by telling them we need to hike taxes on millionaires NOT because the government needs the money, NOT because they're not paying their fair share, but simply because the government thinks they have too much money.



 

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
5. How can the patently obvious be derided as liberal?
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 12:42 PM
Apr 2013

The GINI index in the USA is amazingly bad.

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This year, the USA will pass Mexico (home of the world's richest man) in inequality.

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