Letter: Obama's campaign promises government will take from 'rich'

Published: Saturday, Sept. 15 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

President Barack Obama walks onto stage at a campaign event at West Palm Beach County Convention Center, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012, in West Palm Beach, Fla.

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I can summarize Obama's campaign in one sentence: "It's against the law for you to go to your (rich) neighbor's house and take his stuff, but if you vote for me, the government will do it for you." I put the word "rich" in parenthesis because the definition of rich will most assuredly creep downward when raising taxes on the "rich" fails to provide the desired windfall.

Kerry Thompson

North Salt Lake

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Roland Kayser

Cottonwood Heights, UT

Federal taxes are at a sixty year low. Getting them back up to their historical norm hardly constitutes Armageddon. The effective income tax rate paid by the top one percent is 22%. If we doubled that to 44% we would raise 3% of GDP in additional More..

7:58 a.m. Sept. 15, 2012
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Hutterite

American Fork, UT

We're probably all going to have to accept a larger tax burden, including the rich. I'm good with that, because it's the price of a free, civil society.

9:30 a.m. Sept. 15, 2012
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ugottabkidn

Sandy, UT

Yes, jsf if everyone paid their fair share such as Romney, GE, Exxon, and others of the same ilk. I have no problem returning to the Clinton tax rates. The key to all of this is an increase in revenue. I don't think an extra 3% of your income More..

11:05 a.m. Sept. 15, 2012
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