It is impressive that the Republican Party has managed to gather as many people as it has to its current project of advancing the interests of the richest 1 percent of the population (even if Party enrollment is declining in nearly all demographic groups, according to Gallup).
Citizens for Tax Justice has the numbers:
The 2009 federal income taxes that come due on April 15 have been cut for nearly all working Americans, including Americans at all income levels, by the Recovery Act signed by President Obama last year. No legislation enacted during the Obama administration increased taxes for 2009.
The table below shows how working families and individuals in Massachusetts were affected by four of the major tax cuts included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Recovery Act) signed into law by President Obama last year. These figures reveal that:
97 percent of working families and individuals in Massachusetts benefitted from at least one of the tax cuts signed into law by President Obama. Working people in Massachusetts received $1,360, on average, from these breaks. These tax breaks benefitted working people at all income levels.
…has until May 11th to file both federal and state taxes on account of flooding a few weeks ago. I believe this applies to Worcester County and east thereof. Just heard that “tax freedom day” was April 9th, the earliest it’s been in several years.
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p>Don’t think any rational being was expecting tax increases in 2009; more the focus on 2011 with the sunset of EGTRRA rates.
LOL. Maybe not … but that statement of course excludes a significant number of major players in what David Frum accurately called the “conservative entertainment industry.”
right wingers didn’t think that even the Obama administration would douse gas on the fire by raising taxes first thing out of the box in an economic meltdown (and also ignoring the obvious observation that raising taxes on profits when profits were nowhere to be seen could be viewed as a Don Quixote action, as well as an exercise in phantom revenue).