Reply from Congressman Emanuel Cleaver concerning OrphanWorksActof 2008

[Jon Pruente]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:45 AM, lowell <lowell at kc.rr.com> wrote:
>> administration genuflected to their holy-of-holies (free market laissez
>> faire no matter what the current reality may be) and dramatically cut the
>> tax *rates* of the upper bracket incomes (the ONLY ones who pay taxes, if I
>> understand you correctly) knowing this would drastically reduce tax
>> *revenue*.  The motive driving this on-the-face-of-it foolish action  had
>
> Nope, I never said the tax cuts were for the rich only.  The lower
> brackets accounted for quite a lot of the tax relief from the Bush tax
> cuts, even if the Democrats want to play like it isn't true.

Maybe I should clarify a bit: If you read the info, then you see that
the lower brackets of people are being SENT money by the IRS.  They
are still "taxed" in the sense that they need to file, but they have a
negative tax rate in effect.  I never said only the rich pay taxes, I
said they pay most of them.  The data proves it.  it also helps to
define the point where you cut off "rich" in the figures and the IRS
tends to do that around $150K-350K.

Jon.