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Gee my family gets to fund more USofA citizens 
That is sure to incite battles with doctors, hospitals, health insurance companies and drug manufacturers.
...But this ought to be a HUGE INCENTIVE for someone wanting to buy a nice expensive home...NOT...
, charitable contributions, local taxes and other expenses to 28 cents on the dollar, rather than the 35 cents they can claim now.So now, it costs me 72 cents to donate a dollar...really a huge incentive to continue my charitable giving...
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In order to see the whole, you need to look both at where revenues will come from and at where they’ll go: By allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire (they never should have been implemented), the marginal income tax on the highest earners goes back to 39.6 percent (from 35 percent, now), and capital gains rates to 20 percent (from 15, now). The budget also limits the amount highest earners can claim for mortgage-interest and charitable deductions (from 35 percent now down to 28 percent), raising an estimated $318 billion over ten years. Finally, wealthier Medicare beneficiaries will have to pay higher premiums for prescription drugs.
Presidential budgets are aspirations. They're not real, in the sense that no one really has to adhere to them. Obama's budget now goes to Congress, where budget committees will draw up their own versions. Even these congressional budgets are mere guidelines for appropriations and tax-writing committees. Lobbyists will be swarming. So don't expect the final offering to look exactly like the proposal the President is putting into motion. On the other hand, it is likely to bear more than a passing resemblance.
It's about time a presidential budget uneqivocally redistributed income from the very rich to the middle class and poor. The incomes of the top 1 percent have soared for thirty years while median wages have slowed or declined in real terms. As economists Thomas Piketty and Emanuel Saez have shown, in the 1970s the top-earning 1 percent of Americans took home 8 percent of total income; as recently as 1980 they took home 9 percent. After that, total income became more and more concentrated at the top. By 2007, the top 1 percent took home over 22 percent. Meanwhile, even as their incomes dramatically increased, the total federal tax rates paid by the top 1 percent dropped. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the top 1 percent paid a total federal tax rate of 37 percent three decades ago; now it's paying 31 percent.
Fairness is at stake but so is the economy as a whole. This Mini- Depression is partly the result of a widening gap between what Americans can afford to buy and what Americans when fully employed can produce. And that gap is in no small measure due to the widening gap in incomes, since the rich don't devote nearly as large a portion of their incomes to buying things than middle and lower-income people. The rich, after all, already have most of what they want.
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Originally Posted by PaulChristenson 
I'll be by to pickup the keys to the L39 first thing next week! 
Thank you all for helping to support me! 
