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Taxing the Rich -- By: Veronique de Rugy
corner.nationalreview.com - 17 days ago
Taxing the Rich -- By: Veronique de Rugy
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In order to fund her "deficit neutral" health-care reform, Nancy Pelosi is trying to make the millionaire tax a new feature of our federal tax code. Here is the plan : The bill is funded largely from a 5.4 percent tax on individuals making more than $500,000 a year and couples making more ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 23 days ago
Soros to Launch an Effort to Get Free-Market Ideas Out of Economics -- By: Veronique de Rugy
— corner.nationalreview.com — This is quite amazing : Now financier George Soros is announcing a $50 million effort to speed things along. This week Soros is gathering some of the leading practitioners of the market-skeptic school, who were marginalized during the era of ... (more) Soros to Launch an Effort to Get Free-Market Ideas Out ...

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Daily Pundit — Taxing the Rich - Veronique de Rugy - The Corner on National Review Online Obviously, I think it really doesn’t make it okay to impose this tax just because only 0.3 of taxpayers will be hit by it. Besides, since the tax isn’t indexed to inflation, sooner than later it is going to make its way to many more taxpayers’ bills than planned today (Remember the AMT). Equally obviously, Pelosi regards this as a feature, not a bug.

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