Somebody’s Been Listening To Some Talk Radio

By Kleinheider Posted on April 18, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) voiced his continued support for middle class Americans by signing onto legislation earlier this week giving the wealthiest taxpayers the option of returning more of their incomes to the federal government.

The legislation, H.R. 5783, the “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” Act, amends the U.S. Tax Code to allow citizens to make voluntary donations above their normal tax liability to pay for federal government programs. The legislation was introduced on April 10 by Congressman John Campbell of California.

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Tags: Jimmy Duncan, Phil Valentine, Steve Gill, taxes

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One Responses to “Somebody’s Been Listening To Some Talk Radio”

Sean Braisted writes
April 18th, 2008 1:39 pm

I actually wouldn’t mind this idea, if you allowed the person paying more taxes to have a say in where that tax revenue was going.

For instance, the McCain’s could earmark their money to go to paying the operating expenditures of the Iraqi Government; whereas others could direct their money towards education, health care, etc…

Of course, all a wealthy person would have to do is just skip their deductions and use the standard deduction, and tax revenues would go up quite a bit.

Somebody’s Been Listening To Some Talk Radio

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