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RUSH: The next story we have from CNN Money: “Tax Increase on the Rich Would Impact Just 3% of Taxpayers.” What\u2019s happening here? It\u2019s small, but two stories in a row is some kind of a record. A breakout here of truth from the State-Controlled Media. “As the government looks for ways to climb out of its massive hole of debt, all eyes are on the rich.” No, they\u2019re not! All eyes are on government. All eyes are not on the rich. But it\u2019s CNN.<\/p>\n
“Just how many of these rich people are there, and, are there enough of them for a tax increase to really make a dent for the US trillions of dollars in debt. President Obama has defined the nation\u2019s wealthy as those who make $200,000 or more. According to a recent report from the IRS, that leaves out about 97% of the taxpaying population.” Well, shazam! So they\u2019re accurate here: 3% is who we\u2019re talking about. “A report which provides a complete breakdown and analysis from returns from the 2009 tax year found that only a mere 3% of tax returns were filed by people earning a gross adjusted income of 200 grand or more. Americans earning $1 million or more were even more rare, pricing just two-tenths of 1% of the population, of tax filers, accounting for a mere 236,000 of the 140 million tax returns received in 2009.”<\/p>\n
So the number of millionaires filing taxes — uh, people that earn more than a million dollars, 236,000 — compared to 140 million tax returns received in 2009. “The wealthiest taxpayers, those earning $10 million or more in adjusted gross income are even less prevalent. There were only 8,274 people belonging to that elite club, according to the IRS.” CNN gets it right here. They\u2019re a week behind, but they got it right. “Yet, even though these high income earners are a minority, Obama says the proposed tax increases would boost revenues by $750 billion over a decade, not quite the multitrillion-dollar figure the US needs to pay off the deficit, but for many of those who responded to the CNN\/ORC International Poll, it\u2019s evidently a good enough start.”<\/p>\n
So the class envy works. At least CNN got the number right: Taxes on the rich would impact just 3%. Now, what they are trying to say is, “Go ahead and do it! My God, only gonna affect 3%? Soak \u2019em!” Let them have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: The next story we have from CNN Money: “Tax Increase on the Rich Would Impact Just 3% of Taxpayers.” What\u2019s happening here? It\u2019s small, but two stories in a row is some kind of a record. A breakout here of truth from the State-Controlled Media. “As the government looks for ways to climb out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n