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In reply to the discussion: Should Social Security benefits be taxed? [View all]indepat
(20,899 posts)up from 50%, but when junior lowered the highest marginal rates, he conveniently forgot address taxation of security security benefits, and BHO has been silent on this issue TTBOMK. For you see, a corporatist government would much rather have social security benefits subject to a higher marginal tax rate than der Mittens pays on his $20M annual income, to wit: a corporatist government is interested only in making the tax code even more regressive as Saint gipper would have wanted and you can forget about any change that would make the tax code more progressive. Moreover, Saint Gipper believed corporations should not pay taxes, that only people should pay taxes, hence an effective corporate income tax rate of 7%. Now all at once: all hail the mighty Saint gipper from whom all blessings flow.