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Fox & Friends asks if Stern appointment to deficit panel is "cover to raise taxes and soak the rich"

March 01, 2010 7:20 am ET

From the March 1 edition of Fox News' Fox and Friends:

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    • Author by ojnabieoot (March 01, 2010 7:30 am ET)
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      I think my friends and I had more in-depth political discussions in middle school than anyone has ever had on Fox and Friends.
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    • Author by AB-001 (March 01, 2010 7:40 am ET)
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      No, I think the Stern appointment was made to get Gretchen to get nekkid
      Oh, it wasn't Howard Stern?
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    • Author by jjamele2880 (March 01, 2010 7:42 am ET)
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      Cut taxes for the Middle Class and raise taxes for the rich: Class Warfare.

      Cut taxes only for the rich while wages stagnate for the middle class: Just good economic sense, and what Jefferson, Madison and all the other Founding Fathers intended.

      Got it.
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    • Author by ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© (March 01, 2010 7:49 am ET)
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      Poor rich people!

      Decent discussion of tax rates and the income levels at which they kick in here.
      ~
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    • Author by drempala (March 01, 2010 7:51 am ET)
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      Noooo! Whatever will the rich do if the income tax cap is raised to 41%?
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      • Author by Samurai Cowboy (March 01, 2010 9:02 am ET)
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        41% is not enough. It should be 50% or higher. They have it, they can afford to pay it.
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        • Author by angels4light (March 01, 2010 9:37 am ET)
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          Don't forget, though, that the income tax levels don't affect ALL income, just income above the next step.
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          • Author by nerzog (March 01, 2010 10:13 am ET)
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            Exactly. A little fact that the Troglodytes overlook... perhaps deliberately. Joe the Plumber obviously didn't understand this. In his proposed scenario, in which the business he hoped to buy increased its income from $250,000 to $280,000, the additional taxes under Obama's proposed plan would have been about $1300. Yet Joe didn't think the extra $30,000 would be worth the effort because of this higher tax.
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    • Author by Reinhard (March 01, 2010 7:52 am ET)
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      Where's your proof Stuart? I mean, you did just spout as fact that Stern will raise taxes. Where's the proof?
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    • Author by epkklk851 (March 01, 2010 8:04 am ET)
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      Hey, Stuie, Andy Stern isn't going to raise taxes, even if he wants to. He's the President of a union, he isn't a member of Congress and he isn't a member of the President's Cabinet, all he has the power to do is to suggest ways of cutting the deficit to the President who isn't bound by law to take the advice. And you talk like taxing people who make hundreds, if not thousands of time more than the average working person is a bad thing. To whom much is given, much should be expected. My husband and I will be doing pretty well this year, we will also be paying a lot of taxes. It supports the government and allows the government to deliver services. Would I like to pay less in taxes? Well, yes, but would I like fewer services from the government, no, so I must pay taxes to pay for those services. The Republicans like to cut taxes, but they never cut services, so deficits grow.
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      • Author by nerzog (March 01, 2010 9:23 am ET)
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        Agreed. I've come to enjoy eating safe food, driving on roads that don't tear up my car, and having enough police protection so that I don't have to live in an armed camp.

        I don't mind paying for those things, and I'm way below the six-figure mark. I have no sympathy for people making millions who whine about paying taxes... none.
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        • Author by epkklk851 (March 01, 2010 10:15 am ET)
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          I like all those things myself. It always sounds good to cut government, but nobody wants to be the one who has their services cut. I love how the Foxterds don't even hide that they are only talking about themselves and they don't think their audience will catch or or at least object to their attitude. The average American makes $45,000 a year. The average Foxterd makes several million dollars each year. They will and should pay lots in taxes.
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    • Author by MickD (March 01, 2010 8:59 am ET)
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      The rich will soak themselves when they dive in to their fabulous pools, which you don't have, by the way.
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    • Author by ojnabieoot (March 01, 2010 9:27 am ET)
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      If you're wondering, the Bush tax cuts - enacted by reconciliation - increased the deficit by $1.8 trillion.

      http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/displayatab.cfm?DocID=1651&topic2ID=40&topic3ID=57&DocTypeID=5

      (via Paul Krugman)

      But we can't raise taxes on the rich! That'd be socialist!
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    • Author by mk3872 (March 01, 2010 9:30 am ET)
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      Good to see that Fox News looks out for those out-of-work Tea Part---- er, I mean RICH PEOPLE!
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    • Author by Bongo Fury (March 01, 2010 11:29 am ET)
         
      Fox News..Brought to you by Brawndo.No more drinking out of the toilet.
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