NEW YORK, NY (February 8, 2010) – Democratic Congressional candidate Vincent Morgan has called upon congress to reject the Afghanistan war surtax and renewed his call for a withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
“This legislation will tax working class people in order to enable those who would continue the US trend of perpetual war. If the Democratic Congress is concerned about paying for wars, they should stop funding them and bring our men and women in uniform home where they belong.”
Morgan’s opponent Charlie Rangel is one of three committee chairmen who support the war surtax which begins at taxing joint returns with households earning $150,000.
“A war tax on the working class is not unlike Charlie Rangel’s bill to reinstate the draft in that they both fuel the war machine. One provides the soldiers and the other pays for the bullets.”
“I can understand that the idea behind reinstating the draft is that the elite will be less eager to go to war if it’s their children on the front lines. However, George Bush would have sent rich kids from Harvard to fight and die in Iraq just as soon as he would send poor kids from Harlem. Besides, rich kids were able to evade the Vietnam War draft with a note from their doctor. Perhaps the reason George Bush did not invade North Korea or Iran or Sudan is because he didn’t have the soldiers. The draft should not be reconsidered and neither should a war tax.”
The tax proposal is structured to create three brackets. The first bracket covers joint returns with households earning up to $150,000. The second bracket applies to joint returns for couples earning between $150,000 and $250,000. The third bracket applies to those earning over $250,000. About $9 billion in revenues would come from the first bracket, $10 billion from the second, and $28 billion from the third.
“Under Charlie Rangel’s war plans, working class folks would play a larger role in both fighting and paying for these misguided wars. I don’t want to see anybody in the line of fire in Iraq or Afghanistan. Not rich kids. Not poor kids. Let’s bring them all home.”
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