From: Travis Subject: CaglePost: Spreading The Wealth Around Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008,
[image: THE CAGLE POST] <http://caglepost.com/> Would you like to reprint our cartoons on your site or in your publication? It's easy! Visit us here <http://politicalcartoons.com/>. * <http://caglepost.com/ticker.aspx>* Cartoon by Cam Cardow<http://cagle.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/cam.asp>- Comment on the cartoon<http://caglepost.com/cartoon.aspx?id=7B6D717E-6B68-4084-AC43-7C0A03C9F9F9> We have a great collection of cartoons called "Joe The Plumber" LOOK!<http://cagle.com/news/JoeThePlumber> *Spreading The Wealth Around*<http://www.caglepost.com/column/Linda+Chavez/8213/Spreading+The+Wealth+Around.html> by Linda Chavez <http://www.caglepost.com/c/21/Linda+Chavez.html> - Comment on the column<http://www.caglepost.com/column/Linda+Chavez/8213/Spreading+The+Wealth+Around.html> "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody," Barack Obama explained to Joe Wurzelbacher in Ohio earlier this week. But Joe the Plumber, as he has become known thanks to Wednesday night's presidential debate where his name was invoked no fewer than a half dozen times by both candidates, isn't buying it. And Wurzelbacher is right to be skeptical. In an interview with CBS' Katie Couric after the debate, Wurzelbacher said he was worried that Obama would be the one deciding who was wealthy and, therefore, should be taxed more. Obama says only those earning more than $250,000 will see their taxes go up. But Wurzelbacher worries, "When's he going to decide that $100,000 is too much, you know? I mean, you're on a slippery slope here." Wurzelbacher's fears are well founded. Obama was unable to name a single significant program that he would scale back when asked by debate moderate Bob Schieffer to do so. Obama will have to come up with the money to pay for some trillion dollars in new spending in his first term - including what he calls a "tax cut" but which will really be a check from those who do pay taxes to low-income Americans who already don't pay any federal income taxes. The wealthy already pay a hugely disproportionate share of all federal income taxes. According to an analysis by the non-partisan Tax Foundation using the latest IRS figures (for 2006), taxpayers with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $153,542 and above made up the nation's top 5 percent of earners. But this top 5 percent paid nearly 60 percent of all the income taxes collected in 2006, while earning about 37 percent of AGI. For all the talk of middle-income earners paying most of the taxes, the facts suggest otherwise. Those in the 26-50 percentiles of AGI pay about 11 percent of taxes ... *READ MORE<http://www.caglepost.com/column/Linda+Chavez/8213/Spreading+The+Wealth+Around.html> * ------------------------------ *OUR NEW BOOK IS OUT!* Our big collection of cartoons covering the presidential campaign is out in bookstores a month before election day! We've got the best of the campaign from start to almost-finish, with Obama, McCain, Sarah Palin, the convention, Hillary Clinton and all those wonderful memories, like 3:00am phone calls, super-delegates and crazy preachers! We even have a chapter on John Edwards' affair! This book is a must have for every political wonk! And you must have it now, while we're still obsessed with the campaign! Click here to order The BIG Book of Campaign 2008 Political Cartoons, from Amazon.com at a nice discount <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0789738090/caglecartoons-20A>Follow Daryl each day on Twitter at: twitter.com/dcagle <http://twitter.com/dcagle> [image: Visit the newest cartoons by all of our cartoonists!]<http://caglepost.com/ticker.aspx> ------------------------------ *TO UNSUBSCRIBE (Do Not Reply): email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or CLICK HERE<http://list.caglepost.com/unsubscribe.aspx> . Copyright Cagle Cartoons Inc, Columns and cartoons copyright the respective cartoonists and columnists. All Rights Reserved.* -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
