{"id":9983,"date":"2009-07-14T17:57:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9983"},"modified":"2009-07-14T17:59:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:59:04","slug":"boo-hoo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9983","title":{"rendered":"BOO HOO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tax Foundation just sent out this breathless announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>Democrats&#8217; Health Care Plan Pushes Top Tax Rates Over 50% in 39 States<\/h1>\n<h4>Couples Earning More than $1 Million Hit with 5.4% Surtax<\/h4>\n<p>Washington, DC- A third updated Tax Foundation report shows that 39 states would see top tax rates exceed 50% under a health care funding plan announced today by House Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The latest proposal \u2013 one of several floated on Capitol Hill in the past few days and the third analyzed by the Tax Foundation since Friday \u2013 would impose a surtax of 1 percent on married couples with adjusted gross incomes (AGI) between $350,000and $500,000 (singles between $280,000 and $400,000); 1.5 percent on couples with incomes between $500,000 and $1 million (singles earning between $400,000 and $800,000); and 5.4 percent on couples earning more than $1 million (singles beyond $800,000).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are we really supposed to feel pity for folks who earn $1M+\/year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tax Foundation just sent out this breathless announcement: Democrats&#8217; Health Care Plan Pushes Top Tax Rates Over 50% in 39 States Couples Earning More than $1 Million Hit with 5.4% Surtax Washington, DC- A third updated Tax Foundation report shows that 39 states would see top tax rates exceed 50% under a health care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9985,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions\/9985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}