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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (566332)4/17/2004 8:12:32 PM
From: Srexley  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"But Buddy is talking about a small fraction of the top 1%. The CBO figures don't tell you anything about the top 400 or 500 one way of the other"

He said they had a "lower effective tax rate". I asked him to prove this in the context of their income taxes. ie what right-offs or different tax rates do they have?

He couldn't answer (because his position was bullsh*t), and neither can you. You both listen to too much demo hocus pocus and funny talk and believe such stuff. If it was based on fact, you could prove it.

"And they don't tell you anything about the effects of Bush's tax cuts"

Bush lowered the rate by a couple of points. And he brought the NON paying (Fed Income taxes) group from 23% in 2000 to 33% in 2004. That is what started this "argument" if you can call it that. But it wasn't an argument. It was switching the subject with some demo talking point mumbo-jumbo that you DOLTS like to repeat.
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