{"id":763,"date":"2006-10-25T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/kissling-tax-the-heck-out-of-the-ultra-rich\/"},"modified":"2006-10-25T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T13:18:00","slug":"kissling-tax-the-heck-out-of-the-ultra-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/kissling-tax-the-heck-out-of-the-ultra-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissling: &#8216;tax the heck out of&#8217; the ultra-rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Kissling%2C%20Al.19.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Kissling%2C%20Al.18.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve been asked by several Democrats and Republicans recently whether Al Kissling, the Democrats\u2019 candidate trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., really said people who make more than $2 million annually should be taxed at a rate of 50-75 percent.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He did. Kissling made the comments during a May 24 interview on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swickard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Morning Show With Michael Swickard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He was asked about oil companies and said they were making obscene profits. He said the answer to obscene salaries for corporate officials was to \u201ctax the heck out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI think that people who make over a couple of million ought to be taxed heavily,\u201d Kissling said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Swickard asked how much people who make more than $2 million should be taxed, to which Kissling responded, \u201cI\u2019d say 50-75 percent\u2026 and thank them for helping the national good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Don\u2019t believe me? Most I\u2019ve spoken with didn\u2019t, but I was listening that day and was certain I heard it. I got my hands on a recording of the interview and confirmed it. You can hear Kissling say it by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.com\/KisslingQuote.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been asked by several Democrats and Republicans recently whether Al Kissling, the Democrats\u2019 candidate trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., really said people who make more than $2 million annually should be taxed at a rate of 50-75 percent. He did. Kissling made the comments during a May 24 interview on The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}