Chimpy threatens to veto a bill that would rescue 23 million members of the middle class from the Alternative Minimum Tax because it would make up for the lost revenues by making 50,000 millionaires pay the same tax rate as you and I.
House Democrats on Friday pushed through an $80 billion bill to block the spread of a dreaded tax on middle-income people. The White House and Republicans, protesting tax increases in the bill affecting mainly investment fund managers, maintained that it would never become law.
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What is certain is that if Congress and the White House do not reach a compromise by the end of the year, anywhere from 21 million to 25 million middle-income taxpayers will be hit by the AMT, costing them as much as $2,000 in extra taxes.
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The bill would bring in $25 billion over 10 years by taxing so-called ''carried interest'' as ordinary income. Critics say that it is unfair that private equity managers pay the 15 percent capital gains rate on profits from fees or services instead of the ordinary income tax rate of 35 percent for high earners.
Democrats argued that 23 million people in danger of getting hit by the AMT would be protected by tax changes affecting some 50,000 people earning carried interest.
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The White House also said language in the bill to terminate an IRS program farming out delinquency cases to private debt collectors would subject it to a veto.
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The IRS privatization scheme spent something like $20 million to get something like $2 million in back taxes.
The IRS said that the same money given to their inspectors would have brought in something like $125 million in back taxes.
This was all brought out in Waxman's committee, I believe.
Posted by: Paul in LA | November 09, 2007 at 15:19
Make him veto it. Bush favoring a tax increase on millions of people, that should play real well. Let the R's all uphold his veto, too. Ask all the R candidates what they think of Bush's veto, and why it's right to apply a tax intended for the richest of the rich, to millions of merely (upper) middle-class Americans. R for Republican, R for Rich.
Posted by: dr2chase | November 09, 2007 at 16:06
not like georgie has to get any more votes. i hope he growws tomoatoes on the pig farm for ammo.
Posted by: pansypoo | November 09, 2007 at 21:02
He does realize that even with the change, his kind of people, the "haves and have mores" will still have more, right?
Posted by: sparrow | November 10, 2007 at 07:27
that's the point sparrow, the rest of us can eat cake.
Posted by: pansypoo | November 10, 2007 at 15:30