{"id":5437,"date":"2012-09-12T06:28:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T10:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2012-09-12T06:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T10:28:49","slug":"sowell-obama-uses-tax-the-rich-rhetoric-to-hoodwink-voters-the-columbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/12\/sowell-obama-uses-tax-the-rich-rhetoric-to-hoodwink-voters-the-columbian\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowell: Obama uses &#039;tax the rich&#039; rhetoric to hoodwink voters &#124; The Columbian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Internal Revenue Service, more than 2.7 million people earn $250,000 a year or more &#8212; and fewer than one-tenth of them earn a million dollars or more. So more than nine-tenths of the people who would be hit with the higher taxes supposedly aimed at &#8220;millionaires and billionaires&#8221; are neither. &#8220;Bait-and-switch&#8221; advertising is exactly what President Obama is doing with his proposed tax increases on &#8220;millionaires and billionaires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse when you look at the potential economic consequences of the tax rate increases being proposed. The small proportion of the people targeted for Obama&#8217;s higher tax rates who are in fact millionaires and billionaires have the least likelihood of actually paying the higher tax rates. People with annual incomes in the millions or billions of dollars can live pretty high on the hog on a fraction of their income, leaving them with plenty of money to invest. And they can invest it in ways that keep it away from the tax collectors.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.columbian.com\/news\/2012\/sep\/11\/obama-uses-tax-the-rich-rhetoric-to-hoodwink-voter\/'>Sowell: Obama uses &#039;tax the rich&#039; rhetoric to hoodwink voters | The Columbian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Internal Revenue Service, more than 2.7 million people earn $250,000 a year or more &#8212; and fewer than one-tenth of them earn a million dollars or more. So more than nine-tenths of the people who would be hit with the higher taxes supposedly aimed at &#8220;millionaires and billionaires&#8221; are neither. &#8220;Bait-and-switch&#8221; advertising &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/12\/sowell-obama-uses-tax-the-rich-rhetoric-to-hoodwink-voters-the-columbian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sowell: Obama uses &#039;tax the rich&#039; rhetoric to hoodwink voters &#124; The Columbian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[1802,3437],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-income-tax-rates","tag-top-marginal-income-tax-rates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sowell: Obama uses &#039;tax the rich&#039; rhetoric to hoodwink voters &#124; The Columbian - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sowell: Obama uses &#039;tax the rich&#039; rhetoric to hoodwink voters &#124; The Columbian - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to the Internal Revenue Service, more than 2.7 million people earn $250,000 a year or more &#8212; and fewer than one-tenth of them earn a million dollars or more. 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