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Kerry says that the Congressional Budget Office "documents what others and I have been saying for months.(John F. Kerry's comments on taxation fairness)(Brief Article)
* Kerry says that the Congressional Budget Office "documents what others and I have been saying for months. The tax burden of middle-class Americans has gone up, while the tax burden of the wealthiest people has gone down. That is wrong. That is morally wrong, and it's wrong from a policy point of view in America, and we have to change it." It is also wrong in the simpler sense of being factually mistaken. The CBO analysis says that middle-class Americans have seen their federal tax burden go down. It also says that they are paying a larger proportion of all federal revenues. There are two reasons for this change. A progressive tax code almost guarantees that when incomes fall, as in a recession, the share of taxes paid by the rich will go down. (Think about it this way: Assume that the richest fifth of Americans in 2001 were still the richest fifth in ...
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...from all sides with proposals for payroll tax increases (CSST, parental insurance...put a cap on this portion of the tax burden, which is already much heavier...CPQ's proposal to stabilize the payroll tax level is not revolutionary. The...
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...employers and employees will need to ante up $1 trillion in new revenue over the next five years, splitting a new 3.9% payroll tax, up from 2.9% today -- on top of the $370 billion needed to save Medicare Part B, which covers doctors' fees and other...
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- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Lind, Michael September 1, 2007 700+ words
...of Americans to pay more income tax than payroll tax. You'd think that politicians in Washington would be eager to relieve voters of the payroll tax burden, right? Wrong. Since 1980 the payroll tax has been hiked several times. Meanwhile...
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...economy? Yes. Simply require the payroll tax cut to go into a retirement...employers pay half the current payroll tax, applying 3 percentage points...a system of RSAs funded by a payroll tax cut, the tax burden would be lower for everyone...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 19, 2004 700+ words
...limits. The average payroll tax in the other cities is...requested the survey, said a payroll tax is the best way for the...more fairly spread the tax burden. City officials have...member Tom Marshall said a payroll tax "might send businesses...
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...Assembly would reinstate the stepped payroll tax threshold system that was scrapped...July the year before last the payroll tax threshold should have gone from...be committed to ''lifting the payroll tax burden on small to medium businesses...
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...ministry is categorically against payroll tax reductions, they maintain the...Finance Minister. Papanek says payroll tax reductions are not possible without...change that would ease the overall payroll tax burden by 2 to 4 percent," Klub 500...
- Bligh offers payroll tax relief.
- News wire article from: Bulletin Wire February 24, 2009 700+ words
...trainee's wages off their payroll tax for another employee...apprentices could pay no payroll tax for their entire workforce...will actually be cutting payroll tax for small to medium businesses...lift the "insidious tax burden" off businesses that...
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...Supreme Court ruling that puts the city payroll tax referendum on Memphis ballots Nov...will be hard pressed to vote for the payroll-tax amendment proposed by the Memphis City...Tennessee. But what impact will a city payroll tax have when there is none across the city...
Source: HighBeam Research, Kerry says that the Congressional Budget Office "documents what...