Comments on: Taking from the rich http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/ Ojai News, Newspaper, Events and Community Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: to JB http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-4234 to JB Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:43:15 +0000 http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/#comment-4234 I think it's clear that Fred is not pulling this information out of thin air, he cited Roberton Williams of the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. I think it’s clear that Fred is not pulling this information out of thin air, he cited Roberton Williams of the non-partisan Tax Policy Center.

]]> By: Jonathan Brown http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-4233 Jonathan Brown Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:46:18 +0000 http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/#comment-4233 <blockquote>From 1979 through 2005, the bottom twenty percent of taxpayers saw their income grow by a whopping one percent…total. Not per year…total…period.</blockquote> Are you suggesting that the bottom 20% of tax payers in 1979 were tracked as individuals through 2005 and their growth over that period yielded only 1%? Or are you saying that as a bracket -- which people will enter and exit over time -- only grew 1% over that time period? So you're saying a bracket, not an individual who controls their fate, should constantly be moving like the upper brackets?

From 1979 through 2005, the bottom twenty percent of taxpayers saw their income grow by a whopping one percent…total. Not per year…total…period.

Are you suggesting that the bottom 20% of tax payers in 1979 were tracked as individuals through 2005 and their growth over that period yielded only 1%?
Or are you saying that as a bracket — which people will enter and exit over time — only grew 1% over that time period?
So you’re saying a bracket, not an individual who controls their fate, should constantly be moving like the upper brackets?

]]> By: Tyler http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-4232 Tyler Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:33:29 +0000 http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/#comment-4232 Where's the cutoff? Where’s the cutoff?

]]> By: mk http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-4231 mk Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:18:15 +0000 http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/#comment-4231 Fred- do you really think the ojaipost readership is in the top 20% of taxpayers? Fred-
do you really think the ojaipost readership is in the top 20% of taxpayers?

]]> By: Kit Stolz http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/comment-page-1/#comment-4230 Kit Stolz Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:43:54 +0000 http://www.ojaipost.com/2009/03/taking-from-the-rich/#comment-4230 Funny! It's a serious subject, of course, but a little lightness makes the issues easier to face. Appreciated. Funny!
It’s a serious subject, of course, but a little lightness makes the issues easier to face. Appreciated.

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