Washington debates tax cuts for people making more than $250,000 a year, while far too many struggle at the other end of the economic spectrum. Can you say skewed priorities?
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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OK, I'll try one more time. You, and your thugs in Gooferment, have no right to steal wealth from honest hard working people. The 250k nonsense ignores the fact that most small businesses file their taxes as an individual. So, in the frenzy of jealousy to \”tax the rich\”, you manage to screw most of the small businesses in the USA. Who do you think does most of the hiring?When you have a \”minimum wage\”, you interfere with the right of people to freely contract. Minimum prices for wages ensure unemployment! Please recognize that your \”Big Gooferment\” whine really hurts the little people. The rich have choices; the poor don't. For example, the Maryland \”millionaire's tax\”, John Kerry on where to dock that boat, doctors that limit their practices, the owner of the Buffalo Sabres moves to Florida, and on and on and on!Oh and by the way, corporations DON'T pay taxes; only real people do. So guess who can't avoid paying those \”corporate taxes\” with a large part of their income? Yup, the poor!Argh! It seems so OBVIOUS.