Obama to set higher tax rates for the rich?

This will never pass, but I wonder how far this will go... I mean taxing the rich? What a fantastic idea! I wonder why no one had ever though of doing this before?!

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Saturday, September 17, 2011 -- 6:00 PM EDT
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President Obama to Seek Higher Tax Rate on Millionaires

President Obama on Monday will call for a new minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year to ensure that they pay at least the same percentage of their earnings as middle-income taxpayers, administration officials said.

With a special joint Congressional committee starting work to reach a bipartisan budget deal, the proposal adds a populist feature to Mr. Obama’s effort to raise the political pressure on Republicans to agree to higher revenues from the wealthy in return for Democrats’ support of future savings from Medicare and Medicaid.

Mr. Obama, in a bit of political salesmanship, will call his proposal the Buffett Rule, in a reference to Warren E. Buffett, the billionaire investor who has complained that the richest Americans generally pay a smaller share of their income in federal taxes than do middle-income workers, because investment gains are taxed at a lower rate.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/us/politics/obama-tax-plan-would-ask-more-of-millionaires.html?emc=na

Obama Inauguration

An unprecedented day in the history of the USA. I am SO proud to be living here right now!! His speech was awesome - and now it is time to make a change. After 8 years of Bush we NEED changes, and Obama brings hope, not only to this country, but also to the rest of the world.
I loved the fact that my whole office was crowded round television sets, and you could hear a pin drop it was so silent during the speech.

2009 is going to be a year of big changes, personally for myself, as well as in the world. It feels good.