Friday, July 18, 2008

Barack Loves NY

Obama loves New York City. Well, more their money really.

New York tax filers reporting more than $375,000 a year in earned income may end up paying nearly 60% of their wages in taxes to the government under a Barack Obama presidency, economists who have analyzed his plan said.

Wow.

The Democratic presidential candidate is proposing not only raising the federal income tax, but also adding a Social Security tax for those Americans earning more than $250,000 a year. For New Yorkers, that could mean that if the current Social Security rate is applied, the marginal tax rate, or rate on every extra dollar earned, could rise to 58%.

And I'm guessing this increase won't include the $500 billion to pay for his Brownshirts civilian national security force.

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