Something seems to be mistakenly, if not conveniently, missed in Tiffee’s logic. “The poor paying more?” I don’t think so. The following are pretty close estimates of the bottom of the 20 percent bottoms and the bottom of the top 1 percent’s respective annual gross income levels, those being $25,000 for the “poor” and $250,000 […]
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LETTERS
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to pbacharach@ okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact […]
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LETTERS
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to pbacharach@ okgazette.com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact […]
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Truth and taxes
I found said letter to include the same slight-of-hand statistical shifting so often used by the left that I felt compelled to ask both the writer of the letter and the staff of the Gazette to consider avoiding using such tactics or publishing such tactics in the future. In doing so, I have no doubt […]
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‘Batchelder logic’
Some facts intervene with this illogic. We added roughly $607 billion per year to the debt under the Bush administration … a shabby record no doubt, and one I deplore. But the first three years of the Obama administration have added an average of $1.116 trillion annually to the deficit. At that rate, four years […]