Example #47: Buffett Rule Blocked Even with 72% Public Support
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| Is "By the People for the People" Now Just a Pipe Dream? |
April 16, 2012-- On the same day that a new
CNN poll shows that
72%
of Americans support the "Buffett Rule," which would require people
earning $1 million a year or more to pay at least 30% in taxes (the same
rate working people pay), the "Buffett Rule"
fails in the U.S. Senate
when 51 Senators vote to proceed with a vote on the measure, and 49
vote against, but because of a(nother) Republican filibuster, 60 votes
were needed to get the vote to the Senate floor.
Keeping taxes low on the rich who finance elections and pay for
lobbyists trumps the will of a vast majority of the people. Sooooo NOT
supposed to be the American Way.
Image credit:
Flickr, Chris Devers
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