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NBC's Holt corrects Costello's inaccurate reporting on health care bill's surtax on wealthy

August 19, 2009 7:56 pm ET

From the August 19 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams:

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NBC's Costello butchers health care bill's tax on wealthy

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    • Author by nerzog (August 19, 2009 8:04 pm ET)
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      Wow. How can somebody making over 350,000 possibly afford an extra FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS! Oh, the humanity, the pain, the anguish!

      It's ONE F***ING PERCENT, people... man up and quit whining.
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      • Author by Vincenzo (August 19, 2009 8:22 pm ET)
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        As the surprisingly calm, conservative, cable news educated, NRA guy at the Montana townhall said "that sounds alot like redistribution of wealth, and I don't like that". However he doesn't mind that the tax burden for the last 30 or so years has fell most heavily on those below the wealthy due to loopholes and tax policy.
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      • Author by DAWUSS (August 19, 2009 8:30 pm ET)
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        How do you think they got that rich?
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      • Author by RKAllen (August 19, 2009 9:03 pm ET)
           
        I would be interested in the math...

        Figure out how many new procedures would be performed as a result of people having affordable health care that would have otherwise not been performed due to denials, inadequate coverage, or no coverage at all.

        Then figure out per procedure, what our richest 1% are getting for there money.

        This is a totally wild guess, but I am thinking 1/2 a cent... maybe one whole penny per procedure that they would be contributing to.
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      • Author by oscar the grouch (August 19, 2009 9:05 pm ET)
           
        And isn't that 1% only on AGI over $350K?
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