Montana 2006 3-way Senate Debate: on Tax Reform

Conrad Burns: Bush tax cuts actually more progressive Clinton tax hikes

We got to make the tax cuts permanent. Because if we do not, in the year 2011, your tax obligation to the fed govt will go up, on a family of four making $64,000, it will go up 58%. The new tax cut was more progressive than Mr. Clinton's tax increases. If you want to tax the rich-- that's what they want to do, it's class warfare! Those folks making $184,000 or more a year pay 84% of the income taxes paid into the national treasury. Under Mr. Clinton, they paid 82%. So we're actually more progressive. Source: 2006 Montana 3-way Senate Debate at MSU Oct 9, 2006

The above quotations are from Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) Jon Tester (D) & Stan Jones (Libertarian) debate at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Sponsored by Montana PBS, Oct. 9, 2006.. Click here for definitions & background information on Tax Reform.
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