pacino wrote:Santorum will win Illinois.

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Final Illinois numbers: Romney 45, Santorum 30, Gingrich 12, Paul 10

The first Rasmussen Reports poll in the state shows Romney at 41% and Rick Santorum at 32%. Trailing further back are Newt Gingrich at 14% and Ron Paul at seven percent (7%)

pacino wrote:PA judges and redistricting get an F. sounds about right.

thephan wrote:

pacino wrote:PA judges and redistricting get an F. sounds about right.

VA got an F in ethics and potential for corruption due to the lack of campaign finance laws.

Didn't I? wrote:This is probably the best one of these I've ever seen:

President Obama's proposed "Buffett rule" tax on Americans earning more than $1 million a year would only raise $31 billion in revenue over 11 years according to a new numbers from Congress' official tax analysts.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., recently introduced legislation implementing Obama's Buffett rule in the Senate and the Associated Press obtained a copy of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimate of legislation today. Contacted for a copy of the report, the JTC said it was private score and would not be made public unless requested by Sen. Whitehouse.

jerseyhoya wrote:

President Obama's proposed "Buffett rule" tax on Americans earning more than $1 million a year would only raise $31 billion in revenue over 11 years according to a new numbers from Congress' official tax analysts.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., recently introduced legislation implementing Obama's Buffett rule in the Senate and the Associated Press obtained a copy of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimate of legislation today. Contacted for a copy of the report, the JTC said it was private score and would not be made public unless requested by Sen. Whitehouse.

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jerseyhoya wrote:I think the proposal was written to scale it in between $1 mil and $2 mil, so you're not paying the full bit until $2 mil for your whole income. I'm not exactly sure how it would work, but I don't think there's a cliff like you're saying.

Ezra Klein: Let me begin with a technical question. How do you avoid a massive tax cliff as people move from making a taxable income of $999,999 to $1,000,001? Because if the rise is too steep, the bill will encourage tax evasion.

Sheldon Whitehouse: Two things. I suppose I could put up with a certain amount of that because it’s a lesser problem than having people making $270 million a year paying a lower tax rate than the plumbers who come to fix their sinks. But the more specific answer is that in the course of our discussions over the bill, that problem has emerged, and we’ve adapted the bill to have a phase in between one and two million. So you pay a portion of the tax the Buffett rule adds as you go up the line between one and two million and it doesn’t kick in fully until you get to two million.

EK: So if it’s not 30 percent, what’s the minimum effective tax rate someone making $1,000,001 would pay?

SW: It’s hard to do the math on that because it would be highly specific to their situation. If they were paying 18 percent now, and if they only went over one million by one dollar, they would be 18 percent plus one one-millionth of the Buffett rule adjustment. And if they were one dollar short of two million, they would pay the full 30 percent minus one one-million of the full adjustment. So there’s a ramp.

PEORIA, Ill. — Former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney eked out a single-digit nine-point victory in the Illinois Republican primary Tuesday night, losing among working class men, rural Evangelical senior citizens, and Franciscan friars while squeaking past his surging rival by a narrow margin in a state that is near the state in which he was born.

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To deafening applause, Senator Santorum lifted a piece of shale into the air and assured his supporters he would be the nominee, with a realistic anticipation that the election results in previous primary contests will be voided at the party’s convention in Tampa.

"This primary was another disaster for Romney," said veteran Illinois political consultant David Axelrod. "The base of the Republican party lives in bomb shelters plotting the overthrow of the government. Romney simply is not getting those voters."

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Most analysts tracking the campaign believe this was another good night for the insurgent Santorum campaign, as Romney again failed to win the votes of several Tea Party members.

Said a top aide to Santorum, "If the Romney folks think they can beat Obama with moderates and swing voters, they don’t grasp what it takes to win elections."