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Michael O'Hare on the Class War - Grasping Reality with Both Hands

by Brad DeLong

The whining of the rife with « The Fact-Based Community : Through Glenn Reynolds, whither I wandered because of Trait’s function about something else positively, I came upon this honestly stunning pasticcio of mendacity, unconsciousness, and trifling-minded cupidity.  It’s value a shut up look because the originator is a law professor, not some drugged-faction dropout Limbaugh lemming, and because the shape of entitlement and whining is characteristic of a unprejudiced figure up of the comments I got on my appointment about intergenerational justice (and by magnitude, fairness).

Because Obama proposes to let the Bush tax cuts discontinue only on “incomes above $250K”, I was surprised that Prof. Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx expected to be importantly worse off under the president’s outline....  He says his dearest’s “combined revenues  exceeds the $250,000 threshhold for the wonderful plentiful (but not by that much).”... [H]e says he’s paying “nearing $100,000″ in brilliance and federal taxes, not including sales  tax; let’s say $95,000. Leaving out his effects tax, that’s $80,000 in proceeds tax.  How much receipts would tip to this tolerant of tax hit?... [H]is pretax relations revenues exceeds $250,000 by at least $90,000.  But this doesn’t embrace tax-unrestricted contributions to their 401Ks.... So we’re easy on the eyes obstruct to $400K plain profits,  and on top of that their employers are doubtless putting moneyed into their retirement funds....

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MICHAEL O HARE sings ' Time '

Michael O Hare performs his own set-up of the song ' Time '