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Proposed changes in taxes after 2008 General election:

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Whittier Market Center DRE#01434794


 
 
CAPITAL GAINS TAX
 
MCCAIN
15% (no change)
 
OBAMA
28%
 
CLINTON
24%
 
How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into  a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.
 
 
DIVIDEND TAX
 
MCCAIN
15% (no change)
 
 
OBAMA
39.6%
 
CLINTON
39.6%
 
How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama or Clinton become president. The experts predict that "Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit."
 
 
INCOME TAX
 
MCCAIN
(no changes)
Single making 30K - tax $4,500 
Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $31,250
 
OBAMA
(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400  
Single making 50K - tax $14,000  
Single making 75K - tax $23,250  
Married making 60K - tax $16,800  
Married making 75K - tax $21,000  
Married making 125K - tax $38,750
 
CLINTON
(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400  
Single making 50K - tax $14,000  
Single making 75K - tax $23,250  
Married making 60K - tax $16,800  
Married making 75K - tax $21,000  
Married making 125K - tax $38,750 
 
How does this affect you? No explanation needed. This is pretty straight forward.
 
 
INHERITANCE TAX
 
MCCAIN
0%
(No change, Bush repealed this tax)
 
OBAMA
keep the inheritance tax
 
CLINTON
keep the inheritance tax
 
How does this affect you? Many families have lost businesses, farms and ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will not only lose them to these taxes.
 
NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY BOTH CLINTON AND OBAMA
 
* New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet
* New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already)
* New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity)
* New taxes on retirement accounts
and last but not least....
 
* New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!

Heather the Realtor Orlando, Lake Mary
LemonTree Realty - Orlando, FL
First Time Home Buyers, Bank Owned Homes
Go MCcain. I have seen most the people that our tax dollars pay for since I was a kid I will say 90% of them abuse the system, dont care and past down to their children how to stay on the system and milk it more. Screw that I work hard and make my money I dont want to pay half of into taxes. I will take a republican any day :). Good blog. Im sure I will get some debates going.
Apr 30, 2008 06:32 AM
Anonymous
Interested in Truth

Dude, the entire bit about taxes is an urban myth, documented on snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/taxes.asp

Stop peddling lies.

Jul 18, 2008 10:09 AM
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