Reply #2: It already hits the middle class [View All]

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Many of the white collar workers have to pay the AMT quarterly -- this means that the Government get a steady income. Turbo Tax automatically figures the amount and prints the forms.

The GOP are great at "giving" people money -- which is their money anyway -- altering "with-holding" -- but in the end we pay more.

Ray-gun learned these tricks when he was Gov in California. First he raised the taxes a bit too much. Then he gave "tax rebates" which made it look like he was cutting the taxes -- and the dumb asses in California fell for his shell game. He brought the shell game to the national level.

The AMT is merely another shell game where we load the government money and then many people get this huge "refund" check. Which is money the government has been using without paying interest.

(The above version is very simplified -- and my conservative GOP father falls for their BS every single time).