here s what o reilly said last night on his program. if barack obama begins taxing me more than 50%, which is very possible, i don t know how much longer i m going to do this. okay. first of all, barack obama doesn t tax anyone. the power to tax resides exclusively with the congress. o reilly is lying, of course, when he says tax rates are up to barack obama. now, it s true that the president would like to see o reilly pay more taxes. the president would like the top tax bracket, o reilly bracket increased from 35% to 39.6%. what o reilly should have said if the congress including the republican house of representatives decides to raise my tax bracket to 39.6%, i don t know how much longer i m going to do this. but o reilly has to lie about everything in that statement in order to make it credible to his audience whose gullibility he has precisely calculated in the lies he s loaded into that sentence. he knows, o reilly knows his audience doesn t know that tax rates are not up to the
could be taxed out of existence is based on the republican article of faith that o reill announceuated this way. if you tax achievement, some achievers are going to pack it in. this is of course not true and has never been true. when our top tax rate was over 90%, the rich got richer and none of the achievers packed it in. and in the clinton years when the top tax bracket was 4.5 percentage points higher than it is now, the rich got much richer including bill o reilly. and none of the achievers including bill o reilly packed it in. what o reilly was trying to tell his audience last night was that if the federal government allows him to take home only $6.1 million from his fox news paycheck instead of $6.5 million from his fox news paycheck, he might just walk and hand the factor over to bernie goldberg or dick morris.
o reilly. here s what o reilly said last night on his program. if barack obama begins taxing me more than 50%, which is very possible, i don t know how much longer i m going to do this. okay. first of all, barack obama doesn t tax anyone. the power to tax resides exclusively with the congress. o reilly is lying, of course, when he says tax rates are up to barack obama. now, it s true that the president would like to see o reilly pay more taxes. the president would like the top tax bracket, o reilly bracket increased from 35% to 39.6%. what o reilly should have said if the congress including the republican house of representatives decides to raise my tax bracket to 39.6%, i don t know how much longer i m going to do this. but o reilly has to lie about everything in that statement in order to make it credible to his audience whose gullibility he has precisely calculated in the lies he s loaded into that
oh, looks like we showed you ralph nader instead of bill o reilly. here s what o reilly said last night on his program. if barack obama begins taxing me more than 50%, which is very possible, i don t know how much longer i m going to do this. okay. first of all, barack obama doesn t tax anyone. the power to tax resides exclusively with the congress. o reilly is lying, of course, when he says tax rates are up to barack obama. now, it s true that the president would like to see o reilly pay more taxes. the president would like the top tax bracket, o reilly bracket increased from 35% to 39.6%. what o reilly should have said if the congress including the republican house of representatives decides to raise my tax bracket to 39.6%, i don t know how much longer i m going to do this. but o reilly has to lie about everything in that statement in order to make it credible to his audience whose gullibility he has precisely calculated in the lies he s loaded into that sentence. he knows, o reil
probably trying to keep track of much, much more than $10 million a year. i don t know. $20 million a year. $30 million. i don t know. it s huge. o reilly s claim that factor could be taxed out of existence is based on the republican article of faith that o reilly announ announceuated this way. if you tax achievement, some achievers are going to pack it in. this is of course not true and has never been true. when our top tax rate was over 90%, the rich got richer and none of the achievers packed it in. and in the clinton years when the top tax bracket was 4.5 percentage points higher than it is now, the rich got much richer including bill o reilly. and none of the achievers including bill o reilly packed it in. what o reilly was trying to tell his audience last night was that if the federal government allows