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Non-Tech : Who Really Pays Taxes? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ztect who wrote (475)	8/19/2000 4:42:04 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 666

Instead of going after the top brackets to the exclusion of the others, he should trim the large jump from the lowest bracket's marginal rate to the next bracket's 31 percent marginal rate. They could do a lot more also by eliminating EITC and other targeted credits.

To: ztect who wrote (475)	8/20/2000 8:16:07 PM
From: kvkkc1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 666

z You conveniently forget that if the Republicans had a President who wasn't hell bent on spending American's excess contributions, the SS funds would be locked away from the general budget. Although I still think SS and Medicare need to go only to the truly needy, and means tested, regardless of what was paid in. The old folks who paid in wouldn't be hurt any worse than you or I who have no choice but to pay in. Let them make their contributions. I for one am tired of the pandering to seniors. They made sacrifices, but so do all of us. I don't feel the need to pay for millionaire seniors health care or prescriptions. If politicians would stop prostituting themselves to seniors for their votes, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in.knc