Rabu, 21 September 2011

AP FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries? NO!

Another Obama lie exposed: FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries?
"Warren Buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett. There is no justification for it," Obama said as he announced his deficit-reduction plan this week. "It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher or a nurse or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in $50 million."

On average, the wealthiest people in America pay a lot more taxes than the middle class or the poor, according to private and government data. They pay at a higher rate, and as a group, they contribute a much larger share of the overall taxes collected by the federal government.

The 10 percent of households with the highest incomes pay more than half of all federal taxes. They pay more than 70 percent of federal income taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
As with all things Obama, it's all a big pile of bs:
HT: memeorandum. More from  Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Maggie's Farm, Fausta's Blog, Pajamas Media, CARPE DIEM, Left Coast Rebel and Campaign 2012

UPDATE: Since Obama mentioned  in the above video that he believes this is about math, not politics, via Les Jones via Instapundit:
Math joke from Anna, the civil engineering student and bartender at Brackins Blues Club: an infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one tells the bartender he wants a beer. The second one says he wants half a beer. The third one says he wants a fourth of a beer. The bartender puts two beers on the bar and says “You guys need to learn your limits.”
I got a good laugh out of that (for those that never head the pleasure of Calculus, the limit of all those mathematicians asking for half the last quantity would end up being... 2 beers)

UPDATE #2: Bogus Tax of Obama - "This Fair Share Garbage Has Got To Stop"
 

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