{"id":13405,"date":"2013-01-25T17:42:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T17:42:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-25T17:42:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T17:42:50","slug":"the_sports_media_jihad_against_mickelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/25\/the_sports_media_jihad_against_mickelson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sports Media Jihad Against Mickelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/45558\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The sports media jihad against Phil Mickelson is continuing. To borrow a phrase from our president who said, &#8220;The future must not belong to those who slander paying high taxes,&#8221; this article is a CNN story by Tami Luhby. I\u2019m assuming it\u2019s a female here, T-a-m-i. The story starts out, &#8220;There\u2019s no doubt that Phil Mickelson pays a lot in income taxes as a California resident, but it\u2019s not as much as he thinks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What an idiot he is!<\/p>\n<p>This reporterette is in a much better position to know what Mickelson\u2019s paying in taxes than he is. Who does he think he is, going public and talking about his tax rate? He doesn\u2019t even know what he\u2019s talking about! That\u2019s the point of the story. Tami Luhby of CNN knows. She claims in the story that Phil Mickelson\u2019s only paying about 53%, not 63%, and the reporter even claims that Mickelson is actually paying less than that, since millionaires pay an average around 26%.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/23\/news\/economy\/mickelson-taxes\/\"><img id=\"eZObject_71996\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/MickelsonArticle.jpg\"\/><\/a>She looked it up. So since there is an average tax rate of 26% that millionaires pay &#8212; and, by the way, she\u2019s including people like Buffett and his secretary and Gates, who don\u2019t pay income taxes. Tami, I\u2019m sure, doesn\u2019t know that; she\u2019s a little confused. But we\u2019ll cut her some slack. That, of course, ignores the fact that most millionaires pay a lower rate because they\u2019re not paying income taxes; they are paying capital gains taxes. But most of Mickelson\u2019s income is wages.<\/p>\n<p>Mickelson is not a coupon clipper. Mickelson\u2019s earning what is called earned income, just like yours. His income is not being taxed at 15 or 20%. He added up his federal rate and his state rate, and then what happens to his rate in California with Proposition 30. He\u2019s self-employed. He\u2019s adding up what he pays for Medicare. People that are not self-employed don\u2019t understand: The Medicare tax is 3%, 3.4% on everything. Social Security, at least, stops at 115 grand.<\/p>\n<p>Medicare tax is 3%, 3.4% on everything. Let\u2019s add it up. Mickelson pays 39.6% (say 40%) federal and 13.3% California. That\u2019s 53%. He\u2019s gonna have a 3% Medicare tax. That\u2019s 56%. Then there\u2019s gonna be the 0.9% surcharge on income because of Obamacare. That\u2019s 54%. Then there\u2019s the 3% for another ObamaTax that gets tacked on here, and then there is California taxes. For people at Mickelson\u2019s earning level, he doesn\u2019t get to deduct very much, including whatever his state income taxes are. So in the gross, before he starts factoring deductions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Remember, as a 39.6% bracket guy, he doesn\u2019t have many. They\u2019ve taken a lot of those away. So he\u2019s calculating, and he\u2019s up around 62% or 63%. But Tami Luhby at CNN says: No, no, he\u2019s not paying as much as he thinks. He\u2019s only paying 53%. They quote him. Tammy Luhby at CNN, quotes him from Yahoo Sports. Mickelson said, &#8220;If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state,&#8221; he may not even have added the Medicare tax in this, &#8220;my tax rate\u2019s 62, 63%.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_71862\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/MickelsonObama.jpg\"\/><BR\/>&#8220;So I\u2019ve got to make some decisions on what I\u2019m going to do,&#8221; and that\u2019s all it took. The sports media descended on this guy like buzzards and vultures, and Mickelson finally said (paraphrased), &#8220;Okay, okay, okay! I\u2019ll go apologize. It\u2019s insensitive. I\u2019ll apologize for just mentioning that I\u2019m keeping 37cents of every dollar I earn.&#8221; That\u2019s the way to look at it. Don\u2019t look at it that Mickelson is paying 63%. The way to put this in proper focus and context, ask yourself: If you keep 37 cents of every dollar you earn, are you gonna talk about it?<\/line><\/p>\n<p>And then is the sports media gonna descend on you as some insensitive buffoon? The jihad against Phil Mickelson continues. But this reporterette here pretends that Mickelson was just talking about his income tax, even though he\u2019s quoted saying the opposite. That\u2019s how she gets to the 53%. She\u2019s not factoring in the other \u2019cause she doesn\u2019t know about it, because she gets a paycheck with all that withholding from CNN.<\/p>\n<p>She doesn\u2019t know what self-employed people pay. She probably doesn\u2019t know that Mickelson files quarterly estimates. She probably doesn\u2019t even know what that is. Well, she may know. Hell, I don\u2019t want to assume what she doesn\u2019t know. But based on the story here, she\u2019s just looking at income tax and not adding anything else to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The sports media jihad against Phil Mickelson is continuing. To borrow a phrase from our president who said, &#8220;The future must not belong to those who slander paying high taxes,&#8221; this article is a CNN story by Tami Luhby. I\u2019m assuming it\u2019s a female here, T-a-m-i. 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