Proposed millionaires income tax would hit Democratic states hardest

As soon as everyone is counted equal and the spineless politicians reform welfare, this country will turn around. Since neither will ever see the light of day, we will continue to plummet into the vast emptiness that is consuming our nation. There is no excuse for an illegal alien collecting welfare, especially when they are employed by some #$%$ that hired them for full-time work.

Rich people like to live near coasts (& can afford it), now there's news to write home about.

Now this is a telling story. Wonder why states that are democratic have so much inequality ?

Lets have a movie star tax and entertainment tax also.

One good thing about this... the Hollywood elites would have to pay so much more money that their drug buys would significantly decrease, which could hurt the Mexican drug cartels.

where are the actors and other showbiz types calling for higher taxes?

The more you earn the more taxes you should pay.

This makes no sense to me. I am on the lower end of the middle class and do not receive any social benefits, I pay my family’s way and taxes. The top 1% or 2% of earners of money in this country pay about 40% of the overall collected taxes now; the middle class (which is a larger group) brings in the rest and the government wants to tax the wealthy more for getting out and earning a living. This is my complaint:
There are people on welfare year around (at tax payers’ expense), at the end of that year they file taxes and collect 5, 6, $7 thousand dollars or more for not working. The tax payers’ are funding this. My question is, why they are qualified to get a tax refund when they have not earned one and received welfare through the year? Welfare is supposed to be a HELPING HAND NOT A WAY OF LIFE.
Common sense tells me that if our government is so far in debt, they should stop giving these large tax refunds to people that get the majority of their support from welfare. That would certainly save billions of dollars.
Another way to save is to stop giving to the ILLEGAL ALIENS. They are receiving all the social benefits and college tuition at tax payers’ expense. Cut that out and save billions of dollars.
2 simple fixes and our government has not figured that out.

I'll bet this story disappears soon!!

Rich people like to live near coasts (& can afford it), now there's news to write home about.

Please don't complain about a millionaires tax, especially if you are a millionaire. Paying a few extra bucks to the man each year is a good investment. Our gov't needs the help right now and if our markets continue to stall, the economic loss would be far greater than the add'l taxes paid. Please help insure our nation's future by paying just a little more. We can't cut a deficit without running a surplus. Fundraising is patriotic.

If you want to see Greed,,,look no further then 1600 Pen, ave When you spend $463K on an African Vacation,,,on OUR dime and Pelosi hides a $25Mil investment to keep from having to pay taxes on it, and Ried make $20Mill on land that he forced the Gov't to put an Interstate highway next to, and Frank's boyfriends works for Frannie Mae and made $Mill,c and Rangel paid NOTHING on all the money he made on his vacation home...and HE WROTE the tax laws...Now, Who is the Greedy ones????? Wake the HeII up people. You are NOT doing your research,,,all this came from the IRS, GAO and GBO not the media.

So, what you are saying is that Democrats are actually the"Rich Fat Cats" and not the Republicans? As if we didn't know to begin with,,,look at Hollywood, Yeah, Lots of Republicans there alright. Not to mention the Media....Letterman makes $10mil a year and for what?
That is were we need to tax and tax hard,,,where the REAL money it. Entertainment, Sports and the Media.

"higher percentages of very poor people" that mostly vote DEM, so why would they care about stat since the "very poor" people would greatly outnumber the "higher percentages of very rich people". Great use of misleading statistics.

if it would hit the democrats harder why are the republicans fighting it so hard ?

So be it.

This article is saying democrat states have more Millionaires, not that Millionaires tend to vote democrat more. While this tax may siphon off more of the state's total GDP in federal taxes, I doubt the tax will cause a serious shift in how those Millionaires contribute to their states economy. Maybe they will not buy as many cars.

This is pretty much an article about nothing. The voting block of millionaires in even the highest concentrated state is still a very low number. Some of the states that have a higher concentration of millionaires also have a higher concentration of welfare recipients. The tax would affect millionaires not the great majority of the voters in any state. Millionaires have a greater voice with their wallets than they do with their votes.

let the Dems try and push this and next election cycle go to those same people and ask for campaign handouts.. thats right biting the hand that feeds you always works. Hey look at Obama he talks big but where do you think his money comes from...trees?

agreetodisagree be sure to pick up bologna for your lunch with the food stamps I paid for, ya clueless moron