Roy, Robert Robb of the Arizona Republic addresses your first point on tax rates for those who earn more than $200,000, although he doesn’t go as far as you do and recommend a larger tax cut. He does suggest an answer that would likely win President Bush some support:
Here’s what President Bush should say about this issue in tonight’s debate at Arizona State University:
Here’s why I think the tax rates in my plan for Americans making more than $200,000 a year are fair and good for the economy.
The first thing you need to know is that, under my plan, upper-income Americans are hardly getting off scot-free. Those making more than $312,000 pay a 35 percent marginal tax rate. Those making $200,000 to $312,000 pay a 33 percent marginal tax rate.
That means that, under my plan, the federal government takes at least a third of every additional dollar these families make. I think that’s enough.
My opponent wants to raise that to as high as 40 percent. I think that’s too much.
And so on.
