{"id":27291,"date":"2007-10-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:45:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:45:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:45:25","slug":"hillary_s_mother_of_all_tax_hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/10\/25\/hillary_s_mother_of_all_tax_hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary\u2019s Mother of All Tax Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Charles Rangel finally has announced his mother of all tax hikes, the largest single tax increase in American history, over $1 trillion. I have been studying the way the Drive-By Media has been reporting this today. Folks, it is journalistic malpractice. Actually, his politics on this are pretty shrewd, given he knows he has buddies in the Drive-By Media. The way they\u2019re spinning this is that Rangel has to get rid of the alternative minimum tax, because it\u2019s creaming people it was never intended to cream. It\u2019s supposed to cream the rich. Now it\u2019s screaming the middle class. There\u2019s a lesson in this, folks, by the way. All these things aimed at the rich are eventually going to get to you. They\u2019re always about you in the first place. So he\u2019s going to get rid of that. People are going to go, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, get rid of it.\u2019 He has two weeks to get rid of the alternative minimum tax, from what I understand, anyway, because if they don\u2019t get it done in two weeks, then the IRS can\u2019t reprogram their computers to do everybody\u2019s tax returns and calculate this and that starting in January. <\/p>\n

Now, how\u2019s he going to pay for the alternative minimum tax? Well, this is what the Drive-Bys are eating up. What the Drive-Bys are just loving and everybody else is loving is he\u2019s going to raise taxes on hedge fund managers, he\u2019s going to raise taxes on asset managers, and there\u2019s a 20-80 rule that allows certain hedge fund managers and asset portfolio managers to take 20% of their fee in earned income and 80%, the growth or the gain in the fund at the capital gains rate, which is 15%. So he wants to raise the capital gains rate, he wants to eliminate that, charge these guys. Now, the money for that is going to come out of the earnings, and the earnings are invested by teachers and public employees and all these unions that have their pension plans invested in various portfolios, assets, hedge funds, and so forth and so on. So while the press is disguising for Dingy Harry the fact it\u2019s a big middle class tax cut, we\u2019re going to soak the rich, ultimately in the end, it\u2019s the middle class investor who\u2019s going to get screwed on this. But the worst part about it is that what the Drive-Bys are leaving out; the New York Times left it out, the Associated Press left it out. One place I saw might have touched on it briefly, but here\u2019s the thing. <\/p>\n

Rangel\u2019s tax bill will add a 4% surtax on Americans earning more than $150,000 a year. (interruption) Yeah, of course you didn\u2019t read that, Mr. Snerdley, because it\u2019s not in the stories. That\u2019s what I meant. I did an expert show prep analysis of the Drive-By Media on this. The bill will add a 4% surtax on Americans earning more than $150,000 a year. It will be 4% surtax on couples who earn $200,000 a year or more. That is on top of the scheduled expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, which will expire in 2010. So under Charlie Rangel\u2019s plan, forget this AMT business for a minute, forget soaking the rich on the corporate side and the hedge fund side and all that — oh, by the way, he\u2019s going to cut corporate taxes, too, from 35 to 31%, but corporations don\u2019t pay taxes, you do, we all do. At any rate, so after his 4% surtax on single people earning more than he 150 grand — by the way, who\u2019s married anymore? You know, $200,000 for married couples, less than half the country\u2019s married these days. You have a lot of single people that are going to be affected by this. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how this is going to end up. You let the current tax cuts expire, you add the 4% surtax, and over the next few years the individual income top tax rate in the United States will rise from 35% to 44%. By way of comparison, the other 29 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries, basically other developed nations, have an average top marginal tax rate of 35.7%. In fact, only five OECD countries would have a higher top marginal tax rate in 2011 than the United States if the Democrats\u2019 bill is enacted. Now, Rangel knows that he\u2019s not going to get this bill passed and signed into law this year, but he is going to try this AMT business. He wants to cherry pick the AMT business, but this is a test, the whole floating of the proposal to see how it goes is a test, but I\u2019ll tell you what it is. It is precisely what would happen if the Democrats win the White House in 2008, because when they\u2019re inaugurated in 2009, this is exactly — the Clintons did it, raised taxes. So we\u2019re looking at a top marginal rate of 44%, and everybody else\u2019s rates are going to go up accordingly, folks, don\u2019t think yours won\u2019t. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Rangel is 77 years old, and he\u2019s not taking the long view of anything, obviously. When you\u2019re 77, you don\u2019t take the long view. He wants this done now. These people are telling us right out in the open, right out in full daylight just who they are and what they want. This large a tax increase would destroy the economy. It would literally… Well, ‘destroy\u2019; it would destroy the trend, growth trend that we\u2019re on. It\u2019s just mind-boggling. Now, the presidential candidates have not weighed in on this yet, but all tax legislation originates in the Ways and Means Committee in the House, and all spending bills originate there. The president can send over his ideas, and if he controls the White House and they control the various houses of Congress, then that will probably be what will happen. That\u2019s why if Hillary gets in there, or any of the other Democrats get in there and Rangel remains as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, you\u2019re basically looking at what they\u2019re going to try to do, and how they\u2019re going to try to get people to believe it\u2019s not what it actually is. They\u2019re going to try to make you think it\u2019s a big middle-class tax cut by really, really soaking the rich. <\/p>\n

If you go look at these AP reporters and all these other Drive-By Media people reporting on this, these people don\u2019t make 150 grand a year, so they don\u2019t care. They don\u2019t make 150 grand. To them, that\u2019s fine. ‘Soak the rich.\u2019 They love, by the way, the whole class-envy business of soaking the rich in the first place. So they\u2019re happy to not dig deep and find the true details of this. They don\u2019t even put in — these stories did not even include — the 4% surtax on the income of 150 grand a year for singles, 200 grand for couples. But this surtax, folks, is on adjusted gross tax, not taxable income. Sounds technical, but it\u2019s not. It means that Rangel\u2019s bill will erode the value of a lot of tax deductions, including for mortgage interest and charitable giving and medical expenses, because the surtax is on adjusted gross, not taxable. It\u2019s on the top.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to spend a little bit more time on Rangel\u2019s tax bill that he unveiled last night. It\u2019s a test. Most of it is not going to be enacted this year. He knows the president would never sign it; the House probably wouldn\u2019t pass it. This is just a preview. It\u2019s sort of like getting a beta, if you\u2019re into computer software, this is like getting the beta before the final release, which, in Rangel\u2019s dream world, will be 2009. So the key ingredient that is being left out of all the reporting today in the Drive-By Media on Rangel\u2019s trillion-dollar tax increase, 4% surtax on single Americans earning more than 150,000 a year, $200,000 for couples, that will take the individual top marginal rates in the US from 35 to 44%, is that when you combine that 4% surtax with the expiration of the current tax cuts that were enacted in 2001 and 2003, these new tax rates will affect approximately ten million taxpayers directly, including those who report business income like small business owners and farmers. But the damage then ripples through the economy, because small business and family farms pay their income taxes as individuals. You\u2019re allowed to do that. If you\u2019re a sub-S, you can file on a personal income form, and you\u2019re just taking money out of the engine that fuels the creation of jobs. <\/p>\n

Now, this surtax is also on adjusted gross income, not your taxable income. Now, tax terms, they sound technical and off putting, but what that means is that Charles Rangel\u2019s new tax bill will erode the value of a bunch of tax deductions that you have now: mortgage interest, charitable giving, medical expenses, state and local taxes, and the standard deduction. And because the surtax kicks in at $150,000 for individuals and $200,000 for couples, this bill creates a monster of a marriage penalty. We thought we got rid of the marriage penalty. Right now they\u2019re bringing it back with this surtax. You remember how upset you were. Let\u2019s go back, \u201987 we did the big tax reform with Reagan and rates came down from 50 to 31 — I don\u2019t remember the year. Remember when a tax code change eliminated your ability to deduct interest on your credit card payments? You remember that day, Mr. Snerdley? Oh, people called here and were furious. I will never forget, we got a call from a woman in Illinois who was just going through the roof, and I said, ‘Ma\u2019am, calm down, this is actually a good thing. Why do you think it\u2019s such a big deal to deduct interest on your credit card?\u2019 ‘Well, because it just is. It makes it cheaper.\u2019 ‘No, it doesn\u2019t. Do you realize how much in debt you\u2019re going by not paying the balance in full every month?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Deductions are the magic word to make the middle class think that they\u2019re operating like the big guys, because they think the big guys are deducting everything, get away with paying no taxes, get to deduct this, everything is a business expense, write this off, write that off. Well, you have to have it to write it off, and you have to lose it to write it off, if it\u2019s a genuine loss. So they took that away. People got fed up. If this bill becomes law, if it ever gets signed into law, what it means is that, for example, your mortgage interest, not all of it will be tax deductible, only a portion of it would be. Yes, only a portion. Only a portion of your charitable contributions would be deductible. Only a portion of your medical expenses would be deductible, not the full — (interruption) yes, because the surtax is going to be on adjusted gross income, not taxable. It\u2019s going to be on the highest amount — before you take all your deductions, before you take all those things to get to your taxable income, the AGI, you\u2019re going to be taxed on the higher amount, not quite your gross, because it\u2019s standard deduction, things come out of there, but you\u2019re going to get taxed on the highest amount. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s going to lessen the value of the deductions that you currently have. And, of course, the mortgage interest, that\u2019s a big deal, and the Realtors association, the home builders and all these guys are going to get involved in this, they try — (interruption) what? When you file your taxes, you\u2019ve got two different kinds of income. You\u2019ve got your gross, the adjusted gross income, and then that which is taxable income. From the AGI, you are given the standard deduction based on kids that you have, a number of other things that will reduce. The surtax, the 4% surtax, will be tacked on to the higher amount, not your taxable income. That surtax taking your rate at the upper bracket from 35% to 44% is going to impact the percentage of all of these things you can take interest deductions on. So you\u2019re not going to lose the mortgage interest deduction, because the surtax that you\u2019ve gotta pay — I mean, the money that you would get, the money you would save, be able to deduct the interest, is going back to the government in the form of a surtax. They\u2019re just taking it back. You\u2019re going to get the deduction, but you\u2019re never going to see it because it\u2019s going to be a surtax. This is for people 150 grand or over, and some of you in this audience are not in that bracket and if you\u2019re married, some of you are not in that bracket, but you\u2019re trying to be, aren\u2019t you? You\u2019re aiming for that. <\/p>\n

We all want to improve our standard of living, we all want raises, we all want new opportunities. You\u2019re aiming for that, are you not? Don\u2019t sit there and say, ‘Good, make those people pay, yeah, yeah,\u2019 because you\u2019re next. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s like I\u2019ve been trying to tell you on this S-CHIP program, they\u2019re going to pay for this by taxing cigarettes another dollar a pack, and you\u2019re sitting there, probably some of you say, ‘Well, that\u2019s good, I don\u2019t smoke, make those filthy people, polluting the planet, causing cancer, make them pay the tax.\u2019 Right. Well, when you allow — and this is classic, used to the same trick — rather than just soak everybody at once, you pick a group, an unpopular group at first to make them pay the tax, like smokers. Who\u2019s going to defend smokers? Well, as I\u2019ve warned you, smokers are not going to be allowed to use the product very often and in very many places in the future. You couple the fact they can\u2019t use the product legally in a lot of places with the fact it\u2019s going to cost through the roof now and you\u2019re going to have fewer people buying the product, which is going to generate less tax revenue. Guess who\u2019s next to pay for it? You, who were laughing and clapping your hands. <\/p>\n

These people deserve Medals of Honor, these smokers. They\u2019re paying for so much in society now, you wouldn\u2019t believe it. They deserve your respect, folks. Anyway, I\u2019m off the beaten path. It\u2019s the same thing here with Rangel\u2019s system. It also creates the marriage penalty. Now, here\u2019s the key to this. The key that Rangel is hoping to use to get the Drive-Bys all for it and, as many Democrats as possible, including some Republicans, is the alternative minimum tax. You know the alternative minimum tax is catching more and more people it was never intended to catch. It was originally created because back in the days, there were like 20 families, one tax year, wealthy, super-rich families, who paid zero income tax, and they didn\u2019t cheat, they just used the existing tax code of the day, and they were able to end up paying no income tax. Well, that was reported, and, of course, everybody had a cow, and so they came up with the alternative minimum tax, which is what it says. Even if you don\u2019t owe tax you\u2019re going to pay it because there\u2019s a minimum out there, and here\u2019s the formula. <\/p>\n

Well, as is always the case with government created programs run by liberals, guess who it\u2019s catching? It\u2019s catching you. It\u2019s catching more and more of the middle class and there\u2019s a firestorm erupting over it. The Republicans did come up with a minor patch for it that\u2019s been in place, but it\u2019s not anything really drastic. So Rangel — and the key to his plan in selling it, is he\u2019s going to get rid of it. He\u2019s going to get rid of the alternative minimum tax. But, but, but, big ‘but\u2019 here — as government operates, they are going to cut the alternative minimum tax, but they can\u2019t do without that money. This is called the pay-go system. Government will take tax money from you and make you do with what little you have left. They will never do with less. You cannot cut government\u2019s taxes, essentially. So they\u2019re going to get rid of the AMT, okay? Well, that brings in a lot of money, which is why they haven\u2019t gotten rid of it now and already. So the AMT being eliminated really does not have to be paid for. <\/p>\n

This is a selling point that the Republicans could use. The government never meant for the AMT to affect middle class Americans, and government has a responsibility to make sure that it doesn\u2019t. Now, by arguing that preventing this tax increase requires us to raise taxes elsewhere, Democrats are trying to lock the Congress into a system where we are guaranteed to raise taxes by three-and-a-half trillion dollars over ten years. That\u2019s where Rangel\u2019s plan ends up over ten years, three-and-a-half trillion. The baseline that the Democrats are using for pay-go includes revenue from an unpatched AMT and from the tax increases that occur when the \u201901 and \u201903 tax laws expire after 2010. Now, those things together total three-and-a-half trillion dollars over ten years. So if you use the Democrats\u2019 pay-as-you-go rule, that is the size of the tax increase that\u2019s being imposed on the American people, because getting rid of the AMT — see, the reason, in a moral and just world, the AMT has flown way out of control. It was never intended to raise the money that it\u2019s raising, and so that money technically was never intended to go to the government — ahem — so they don\u2019t need to recover it if they give that money back or if they eliminate that tax. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not how government works; it\u2019s not how the Democrats work. If there is a tax cut somewhere, there\u2019s gotta be a tax increase someplace else. So Rangel — the key to selling this is getting rid of the AMT and soaking the rich. That\u2019s what the Drive-By Media is out selling, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re going to continue to sell and hype. It\u2019s going to be the old class envy game. They\u2019re going to try to get as many people as possible to clap their hands and jump for joy that the AMT is going away, and these rich people, who are stealing everything they\u2019ve got, are going to get soaked again. Think back, folks, every time this has happened, that you\u2019ve been an adult, when you\u2019ve been told that the rich are getting soaked, ask yourself, go back to those days and tell me just how that helped you in a financial sense.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, here\u2019s an easy way to understand this AMT business, folks. Think of the Alternative Minimum Tax as a mistake. It did what it was not intended to do, theoretically. Let\u2019s not even get into that. It was a mistake. It raised taxes by mistake. It collected money it was not intended to collect. So you get rid of it. It was a mistake. Sorry. You do not then come up with new increases in taxes because you\u2019re going to lose money you should have never had in the first place because you had a mistake. Yet that\u2019s what they\u2019re going to do. Now, I\u2019ve got the AP story on this, — and I told you I scoured (as your steward, as in service to humanity as I am and you) — I scoured the Drive-By Media looking at news stories on this, and I want to read to you the way the AP — and what is this clown\u2019s name? Uhhh, let\u2019s see. I guess it doesn\u2019t matter. I just love mentions of these clowns. It\u2019s Jim Abrams. I\u2019m just going to go on the end of the story. ‘Under the Rangel plan, with costs and new revenues over a ten-year period, married couples filing jointly would be entitled to take an additional $850 as a standard deduction, at a cost of $48 billion.\u2019 Every tax cut has a ‘cost\u2019 to the government, and it\u2019s going to be picked up somewhere else.<\/p>\n

You never see the annual budget go down, do you? Nowhere in this list are you going to hear about the 4% surtax on single income, 150-grand; married couple income, 200 grand. Next one: ‘The number of lower income taxpayers qualifying for earned income credit would grow at a cost of $29 billion. The refundable child credit would be increased at a cost of nine billion. Investment fund managers would be prevented from paying taxes at capital gains rates, raising $26 billion, hedge financed managers would be prevented from using offshore tax haven corporations to defer taxes,\u2019 and so forth, raising $23 billion. ‘There would be mandatory cost basis reporting by brokers for transactions involving publicly traded securities raising $4 billion.\u2019 That one\u2019s somewhat complicated. It would be tough to explain, a lot of numbers in a verbal sense, in an audio sense. I might give it a shot. But the bottom line here is that the real tax increase in this bill is not reported in the Drive-By Media, anywhere. Let me grab a quick phone call here before we have to go to the another break. It\u2019s Tampa. This is Mike. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey. Mega dittos from Wesley Chapel, Florida. How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine, sir. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, the thing that got my goat: I was reading the Wall Street Journal article yesterday, and the line that caught my attention was how US manufacturers are going to be penalized by this whole bill, and it\u2019s going to cause them to go overseas. Charlie Rangel is the same guy that\u2019s going to sit here after it goes through, and blame us, blame manufacturers for going overseas, when he\u2019s part of the problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s a good point, and you know why this happens, because Democrats — plus, the government agencies that score these tax increases and tax cut bills — do it statically. They do not dynamically score what happens. So you\u2019re exactly right. You raise taxes on a certain segment of society, say on manufacturing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What are the people that own those businesses going to do? <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are not going to sit there and pay Charlie Rangel the money. They\u2019re going to go where it\u2019s cheaper to operate! Hello, China —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: — or hello, Mexico. They\u2019re going to go where it\u2019s cheaper to operate, and then Charlie Rangel is going to come back and not understand why his tax increase isn\u2019t raising the revenue he thought it was going to raise —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and he\u2019s going to complain and whine about the lack of Americanism on the part of these manufacturers taking these jobs overseas, because they don\u2019t understand… Well, I don\u2019t know if they understand it or not, but they think that people are just going to sit out there, ‘Okay, you got a new tax increase. Your tax rate is 44%. Fork it over.\u2019 They just think they\u2019ll say, ‘Okay, here it is.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: And this was a huge —<\/p>\n

RUSH: They just think that people are static, and things are not fluid, and there isn\u2019t any dynamism in the economy. This is why the tax cuts work, and they never do score them properly. They score them strictly on a zero-sum game, without using any dynamics at all. Tax cuts increase investment. There\u2019s more money to play with and spend, invest, what have you. That\u2019s why the economy goes through the roof every time it happens. More jobs are created, more revenue. This tax increase has been proposed, folks, during record period of tax collection and revenue generation for the government.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: One other way to look at this tax increase: this is Hillary\u2019s tax increase. Rangel always is the front man, the forward operator on Hillary\u2019s plans. He was the first to raise the idea of her running for the Senate. This is Hillary Clinton\u2019s tax increase. Rangel is 77. He can\u2019t have a long view about anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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