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To: ecommerceman who wrote (125274)	2/4/2001 2:28:53 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Dear ecommerceman: Did you not see my post of the proposed rate cuts? If the rich are getting 70% of the benefits it only means they are currently paying OVER 70% of the taxes, as the rate cuts appear to favor the lower brackets. Do you not realize that the steeply progressive tax rates make it THAT MUCH MORE DIFFICULT for the less than rich to enter those upper STRATOSPHERES?? I was a practicing CPA in an international CPA firm for many years ending at the Partner level, believe me the ULTRA RICH have ways OUT of paying the taxes you are worried about. It is the middle class and those somewhat rich that get the burden and the inability to circumvent it. You think the Kennedys, Mellons, etc etc pay those rates? Forget it, they dont. This whole tax thing is a Democrat SHAM used to try and create class warfare against people such as YOURSELF. JDN

To: ecommerceman who wrote (125274)	2/4/2001 5:24:28 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<Well, if that's the case you might want to include a defense for the fact that the richest 10% of the people in this country get 70% of the benefits of Bush's tax cuts, rather than simply ASSERT that they're fair. >> That really is a rip off. The richest 10% pay 90% of the taxes and only get 70% of the benefit of a cut. You should e-mail President Bush and get him to give those 10% 90% of the benefit.