{"id":28464,"date":"2012-01-25T11:50:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28464"},"modified":"2012-01-25T11:50:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:50:49","slug":"naw-this-aint-class-warfare-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28464","title":{"rendered":"Naw, this ain’t class warfare at all"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> this morning decides that for some reason they’d take some shots at Mitt Romney’s income taxes by publishing a chart from Citizens for Tax Justice who they say “is liberal-leaning but nonpartisan”. Yeah, I could almost imagine the Post calling an organization like the Cato Institute or the Heritage Fountation “right-leaning, but non-partisan”. But here’s the chart, which, you already know shows Romney taxes going down;<\/p>\n

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But the cheapest shot is that they still call it “the Bush tax cut for the rich” like you can’t say any of those words without the other in Liberal Land. I seem to remember the whole country in an uproar when the bush tax cuts were about to expire and everyone suddenly realized that everyone’s taxes were going up, not just the rich.<\/p>\n

But, me personally, I hate taxes and I don’t trust anyone else to do my taxes. My taxes hover around 5% of my real income because I take every tax credit I can find. It might go up a few points this year because I used up all of my home improvement tax credits last year.<\/p>\n

The difference between me and the Washington Post, I don’t wish for anyone to pay higher taxes than they do. If Romney legally takes steps to avoid paying taxes, good for him. If he has plan to reduce taxes for the rest of us, good for him again. I’m not jealous because other people pay a lower rate than me, and I’m not jealous if they make more money than me, they probably worked harder at it than I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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