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. $200,000 would therefore feed and house almost 10 families. Last year, 36.5 million people lived under that poverty threshold, so the $200,000 you claim does not make someone rich could ostensibly provide for even more. In an interview with Barack Obama

him out on the fact that Obama wants to tax capital gains at the same rate as wage income, in part because Obama deems it to be unfair that a billionaire hedge fund manager pays a lower marginal tax rate than a secretary (although it bears noting that Obama's actual proposal appears to fall short of correcting this altogether). Both Sullivan and his commenter see Obama's concern for fairness as a negative thing, too characteristic of what I guess they see as the social-engineering reflex that inheres in liberals, so

s true to a certain extend individually (Matthews getting that jiggy up his leg), but remember that major news organizations are run by large corporations which would suffer under an Obama presidency. Obama has already promised hugh tax increased specifically with large businesses and Wall Street hates tax increases. Moreover some journalist have had it up to their pencil erasers with his “let them eat waffles” BS when it comes to answering REAL questions about his positions. We

claimed to have read the Journal and she made a killing in cattle futures--maybe then he wouldn't have had to rely on Tony Rezko for real estate advice, and would avoid making dubious pronouncements on the economy, (most recently in an interview with Maria Bartiromo). The WSJ takes Obama to the woodshed, pointing out an increase in the capital gains rate has led to a decrease in tax revenues, and this: As for Mr. Obama's implication that capital gains remain the privilege of the wealthy well, that's yesterday. In

Maria Bartiromo

McCain Not Worried About Trade Politics - Ian Swanson, The Hill Cuckoo for Switzerland - John Fund, American.com Portman for VP? - Robert Novak, Townhall.com In Wal-Mart We Trust - Colby Cosh, National Post Obama Wants to Raise Cap-Gains Rate - Ben Smith, The Politico How Republicans Lost the West - Ryan Sager, New York Post The Global Litigation Lottery - Vince Vitkowsky, MarketWatch.com My Mom - Don Boudreaux, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

This guy is a complete idiot. How he could have graduated an Ivy league school without even the most basic concepts of economics is beyond me. He was in an interview in which he said he’d be amenable to rasining the capital gains tax by almost 100%!!! BARTIROMO: “How do you plan to change the tax code when it comes to capital gains? How high will that 15 percent rate go?” Sen. OBAMA: “Well, you know, I haven’t given a firm number. Here’

Step 1:  Double the capital gains tax rate In an interview in conjunction with his big economic speech in New York, Senator Obama tells CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo he favors increasing the capital-gains tax rate. Bartiromo reported after her interview: “Right now, as you know, the cap gains

announced our “Rosetta Stone” project for Fitna last night, and since then the translations have been rolling in. I have fourteen languages in hand, with (I hope) several more to come Saudis Offering Deceptive Religious Reform Proposal, Hyscience Obama talks cap-gains rate with CNBC, Politico Video: Octogenarian WWII paratrooper 1, teen mugger 0, HOT AIR Another "slander the military" movie flops, Hillbilly White Trash AMERICAN ANCHOR QUITS AL JAZEERA: "The English-language channel started to more closely resemble its larger

that existed in the past that distorted sound economics. And I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton, which was the 28 percent. Doubling the capital gains tax would once again stifle investment as it did under Bill Clinton. Link