Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Hillary Clinton's Political Strategy in a Nutshell

Hillary's entire political strategy is based on this chart.

The Federal tax burden by earning quintiles, i.e. the top 20% of earners pay 79% of all taxes.

The top 40% of earners in the country pay 95% of the taxes. When Hillary promises free health care or $5000 per child or whatever other goodies she wants, chances are good that you're not going to have to pay for them. Only the top 20% pay their share. Most people don't contribute much of anything at all.

With this logic, why stop at $5000 per child? Why not $15,000? $40,000? A million bajillion? It's all free, so just go for it!

Update: Scipio has weighed in on this concept as well.

1 comment:

kat said...

Hillary was my Homegirl, but I will vote demoCAT, no matter what. Please, no more McBush!