Dick Armey To Liberal Talking Head: I’m Glad You’re Not My Wife
Heh:
I am so damn glad that you can never be my wife cause I surely wouldn’t have to listen to that prattle from you every day.
On a related note, I am so sick of hearing that the Bush tax cuts were for the people at the “very top” of the income brackets from people like Chris Matthews. No wonder Armey was getting irate. It just isn’t true.
Here’s a run-down of federal income tax receipts for the top tax bracket from 2003 - 2006, the years immediately following the Bush tax cuts:
2003: $407
2004: $475
2005: $558
2006: $616
And here’s a run down of all federal income tax receipts for the same years:
2003: $748
2004: $832
2005: $935
2006: $1,024
For you economic illiterates in the audience, those number trends are going up. Meaning a) the “rich” paid more taxes after the Bush tax cuts and b) the Bush tax cuts didn’t cost the federal government tax revenue.
Of course, the idea that Bush’s tax cuts were “for the rich” and “caused deficits” is so ingrained in the liberal psyche at this point that there’s really no hope in changing it.
