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Tax code must stop coddling the rich

By SEN. BERNIE SANDERS

8/3/10


One: The United States is in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the 1930s. More than 16 percent of working-age Americans are unemployed or underemployed. Long-term unemployment is the highest on record. Millions of people have lost their homes, savings and pensions.


Two: The United States today has a $13 trillion national debt and a record-breaking deficit. Last year alone, the federal government spent more than $186 billion just paying interest on the public debt.


Three: The United States has the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country. Today, the top 1 percent of wage earners earn more income than the bottom 50 percent; and the top 1 percent has more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.


During the Bush administration, the middle class saw a $2,200 drop in median family income, down to slightly more than $50,000. Meanwhile, the 400 wealthiest families’ income more than doubled, while their effective income tax rates were slashed almost in half during the past 15 years. The wealthiest 400 Americans have accumulated $1.27 trillion in wealth, while the highest-paid 400 Americans had an average income of $345 million in 2007. As a result of Bush tax policy, they pay an effective income tax rate of 16.6 percent, the lowest on record.


Four: This year, a number of billionaires died and, for the first time since 1916, their families will pay no inheritance tax. This occurred as a result of President George W. Bush’s $1.35 trillion tax break, passed in 2001.


In other words, while this country has a devastatingly high unemployment rate, a huge debt, massive unmet needs and a widening gap between the very richest people and everyone else, we are providing enormous tax breaks to millionaire and billionaire families. This is insane!


Under the Bush tax law, inheritance taxes eliminated this year would be restored in 2011 to the pre-2001 rates — unless Congress acts. Needless to say, in response, a united Republican Party and a few Democrats are working hard to protect the interests of the wealthy few.


Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) recently offered an amendment that would permanently eliminate the estate tax. If it becomes law, huge tax breaks would go solely to the 0.3 percent of American families who are millionaires and billionaires. The other 99.7 percent of Americans — the middle class and working families — would not gain one penny in tax relief.


The DeMint amendment was supported by all but three Republicans, as well as two Democrats.


Over 10 years, the elimination of the estate tax would result in a $1 trillion increase in the deficit. In other words, while our Republican friends are moaning about record-breaking deficits and voted against extending unemployment benefits for 2.5 million Americans, they are prepared to give huge tax breaks to the nation’s richest people and drive up the national debt. I detect a bit of hypocrisy.


Some Republicans argue that eliminating the estate tax would save family farms and small businesses. Not true, though this argument has been tried before.

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