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Tax Fairness and the Presidential Campaign Is America's tax system fair? President Obama calls progressive taxation " the defining issue of our time ," an question of "economic fairness." The Republicans call it "class warfare."
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Tax Fairness and the Presidential Campaign When Mitt Romney released his tax returns, they showed a rate of just 14 percent on $20 million in profits, dividends and interest. The next day in his State of the Union address, President Obama called for tax reform that's become known as the Buffett Rule, calling economic fairness "the defining issue of our time."
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The Flat Tax America's "progressive" income tax takes a larger percentage from high earners than those lower down on the scale. At the moment, there are six tax "brackets," ranging from 10 to 35 percent.
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Income Redistribution: Basic Fairness or 'Class Warfare?' The stimulus package already passed and signed into law provides tax credits for 95 percent of American workers. Now the President wants to increase taxes on the wealthy, partly by letting the Bush tax cuts expire. One of his goals is to reduce the growing gap between the rich and the poor.
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Income Redistribution: Basic Fairness or 'Class Warfare?' The gap between rich and poor has been growing fast.
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Candidates Vow to Help Swing Voters on Eve of Last Debate John McCain and Barack Obama both know that when it comes to the economy, the next president will have to hit the ground running. But the ground keeps shifting and the crisis has produced demands for detailed proposals from both candidates. On Monday, Obama outlined a rescue plan worth about $110 billion.
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