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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Finally, an un-bias and comparative article between Obama vs Romney Tax Plans.

Besides the high earner income tax changes, notice what is going to happen to investors capital gains which will affect start up and business investments.

You add all these small tax hikes up and they result in a large tax increase for those who hit the 200k a year threshold.

Imagine not being able to deduct your mortgage because you hit that 200k a year limit and maxed out deductions?

Overall no matter how much money you make, the best outcome will be the Romney tax plan which will slash lower end income taxes down to 8%. Romney's plan incentives investors to spend money and invest in companies because of the reduction in capital gains taxes which is good for the economy.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/07/news/economy/tax-obama-romney/index.html?iid=HP_LN[/quote]

Let's clarify a few things.

The 200,000 threshold is for individuals. For married couples it's $250,000.

That's TAXABLE income, not AGI.

And nothing says you can't deduct your mortgage interest. What Obama has proposed is a haircut on the deduction -- not a disallowance. For a married couple with taxable income of $260,000 and are in the 31% marginal tax bracket, it means the tax savings on their deduction would be worth 28%, not 31%. Considering the mortgage interest deduction skews its benefits up the income ladder, this isn't such  bad policy.

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If you get a "haircut" on itemized deductions, does that not increase taxes you must pay?

Add that to the 4% increase. Because itemized deduction are complicated and different for each person the result of that can be HUGE.[/quote]

So you'll lose a few thousand dollars to waste on shopping, or the third remodel of your kitchen, or to finance your lavish vacations.  Boo fucking hoo.  I don't buy your bullshit about using that money to create jobs.  Rich families don't magically create jobs to be magnanimous.  If they did, we'd surely be seeing more job growth.  Jobs are created by demand.  When the majority of the country has less money to spend, demand goes down.  Like Clinton said, it's called arithmetic.  Your "logic" just sounds like a rich person's excuse to hoard their wealth and vote for who will best enable you to do that. Congratulations on being selfish and unpatriotic.
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