{"id":16586,"date":"2012-12-03T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2012-12-03T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T16:40:16","slug":"the-charts-tell-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16586","title":{"rendered":"The Charts Tell The Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Hayward posted a story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2012\/12\/why-are-republicans-losing-the-tax-debate.php\">Power Line<\/a> including the following charts:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Progressive Tax 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/580x552xProgressive-Tax-1-600x572.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.rmAymCiy-B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Progressive Tax 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/580x546xProgressive-Tax-2-600x565.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.W6zdd3fJlz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"491\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Progressive Tax 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/580x550xProgressive-Tax-3-600x569.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.MopWal-Pfq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The article points out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Second, raising rates on the rich has always been a liberal cover for raising <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tax\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">taxes<\/a> on everyone.\u00a0 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/barack-obama-12782369\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> doesn\u2019t seem to know much about economics, but he certainly knows that taxing the rich alone won\u2019t begin to resolve the deficit.\u00a0 The real money has always been found in taxing the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Middle class\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_class\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">middle class<\/a>.\u00a0 The great jump in federal revenues began in World War II when the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Income tax\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Income_tax\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">income tax<\/a> was changed to reach much further down the income ladder of the middle class.\u00a0 (See Figure 4.)\u00a0 This is why I think Obama actually wants to go over the fiscal cliff, slam the middle class, and blame it on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Republican Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hang on to your hats. We are going to get what we voted for!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=ce6e0496-9aa4-40c8-a8f9-42f1ba5cea14\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Hayward posted a story at Power Line including the following charts: The article points out: Second, raising rates on the rich has always been a liberal cover for raising taxes on everyone.\u00a0 Obama doesn\u2019t seem to know much about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16586\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,542,1726,562,627,164,280],"class_list":["post-16586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-income-tax","tag-middle-class","tag-obama","tag-power-line","tag-republican","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16591,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions\/16591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}