Comments on: How Angry Are You? http://inside-money.org/blog/how-angry-are-you/ inside-money.org is an online journal for people interested in money and its implications. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:54:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mike Ryan http://inside-money.org/blog/how-angry-are-you/#comment-5848 Mike Ryan Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:15:27 +0000 http://inside-money.org/blog/?p=158#comment-5848 A maximum tax increase for incomes over $250,000 of 4%. Before your readers get too angry they should reflect back to a period when the rate was at that same level, during the Reagan administration. At that time that tax rate was hailed as a watershed moment for the American taxpayer, freeing us from generations of tax and spend liberal policies. I know, I voted for Ronald Reagan twice. Yet today returning to the same level, following a ten year period of negative growth of the stock market and declining real earnings for most Americans, is regarded by some as the ascent of socialism and justification for armed revolt. I appreciate the conservative ethos but isn’t it prudent and conservative to manage your emotions and keep issues in perspective? You may start sounding like a raving liberal. A maximum tax increase for incomes over $250,000 of 4%. Before your readers get too angry they should reflect back to a period when the rate was at that same level, during the Reagan administration. At that time that tax rate was hailed as a watershed moment for the American taxpayer, freeing us from generations of tax and spend liberal policies. I know, I voted for Ronald Reagan twice.

Yet today returning to the same level, following a ten year period of negative growth of the stock market and declining real earnings for most Americans, is regarded by some as the ascent of socialism and justification for armed revolt.

I appreciate the conservative ethos but isn’t it prudent and conservative to manage your emotions and keep issues in perspective? You may start sounding like a raving liberal.

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