Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

Which issues? #mepolitics

For starters: --Is federal tax rate on folks who make $500K a yr too low? What rate would you prefer? Also estate tax. --Do you back expanding Medicare to everyone 50+ yrs old? How would you pay for it? --Do you support a carbon tax? Kerry-Lieberman bill? --Abortion? #mepolitics

1. I do not favor the removal of the AMT. I think that structure of high income earners and company changes made in the recent tax code was a poor choice. There are ways to increase the pie so everyone gets more and we should be focusing on that net gain.

Yeah that's not actually responsive to the question I asked. "--Is federal tax rate on folks who make $500K a yr too low? What rate would you prefer? Also estate tax." #mepolitics

I don't have an answer for you because the answer is "it depends". It depends on how we structure our corporate code. It depends on the overall budget. It depends on what makes the most sense on the priorities in any given year.

Sending legislators that deal in asbolutes on every single issue is a bad way to pick representatives because it forcloses negotiations and the possibility of novel solutions. For example, data might say a good tax scheme might include UBI, which would thoroughly alter the budget

Throwing out a random number for those over $500k doesn't help you. It's not a practical or realistic way to gauge how successful legislation will be. My priority is an equitable budget, but absent a working budget document I can't tell you the answer with any efficacy.

If I was a CD-02 voter it'd help me get an idea re: the relative burdens you think different income groups oughta have to fund govt. That's fundamental. I like candidates who respect voters enough to be candid on basic issues. When they don't it makes me suspicious. #mepolitics