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10. GOP deliberately lie about tax brackets

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:00 PM

Jan 2019

if we got a 70% top tax bracket, it still would not change the taxes paid by people in the lower brackets. It only affects income above all those other brackets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/07/how-tax-brackets-actually-work-simple-visual-guide/?utm_term=.8775ebffec6d

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is he another universal expert? Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #3

I needed that laugh Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #14

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Scott who? Still In Wisconsin Jan 2019 #11

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Yeah... the Koch stuff hit our states almost simultaneously. Still In Wisconsin Jan 2019 #18

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He has always been an idiot. Mickju Jan 2019 #16

That's the dead horse they've been beating to shit for 40 years maxrandb Jan 2019 #19

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