>Marcia, for example has already stated that she intends to earn less deliberately so she won't have extra taken away from her to be redistributed. Sounds a little like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, but people make decisions that make sense to themselves and to their own lives.
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>It depends on how much the tax rate goes up at 200K or whatever the arbitrary number is. If I have to pay, for the sake of argument, 30% on what I earn under 200K but once I cross that threshhold, I have to pay 50% of what I make in taxes, I get to keep more of what I earn by not crossing the threshhold. Doesn't make sense to earn more just so that it can be redistributed.

Like I said. Whatever makes sense to one's self. If that's how it works out for you, then yes, that makes sense, but I got the impression from your post, that you've already decided that if Obama wins, you will go into 'semi-retirement'. Since the numbers haven't yet been published afaik, you can't have already done the calculation. Possibly I misunderstood what you said.