Comments on: I am Not Making this Up… http://www.redstate.com/dan_perrin/2009/11/13/i-am-not-making-this-up/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:56:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: bk http://www.redstate.com/dan_perrin/2009/11/13/i-am-not-making-this-up/#comment-3000 bk Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:46:48 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/dan_perrin/?p=1754#comment-3000 NYT: "Employers and employees each pay a tax equal to 1.45 percent of wages.... One idea is to increase the tax rate by one-half of 1 percentage point, to 1.95 percent for high-income people...." You could just as easily say: "One idea is to raise the tax rate by nearly 35%...." But that would sound severe. NYT: “Employers and employees each pay a tax equal to 1.45 percent of wages…. One idea is to increase the tax rate by one-half of 1 percentage point, to 1.95 percent for high-income people….”

You could just as easily say: “One idea is to raise the tax rate by nearly 35%….” But that would sound severe.

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