"Trent Moorehead" wrote in message ...

I am also very suspicious of very wealthy polititians who
want to penalize wealthy people by increasing their taxes. Will they really
put their John Hancock on a tax that could cost them huge bucks personally?


Something tells me no matter what happens, Laurie David and Teresa
Heinz will always manage to dig enough $100s from out between the sofa
cushions to gas up their Gulfstreams, but there's a very real chance I
will not be able to muster the dimes to fly my Cessna.

It's been said that the people who get hit the hardest are those who
fall into the low-mid range of the upper income band, say
$175k-$300k/year. Enough, in other words, to pay most of their income
at the top marginal rate, but still not enough to start playing the
income-shifting games that the big-big money guys can to shelter their
earnings.

A hard group of people to muster much sympathy for, perhaps, but that
should not be a primary determinant of the merits of policy.

-cwk.