To: JDN who wrote (125279 ) 2/4/2001 2:42:32 PM From: ecommerceman Read Replies (1) | Respond to JDN--maybe you need to read this passage from Dionne's column again:Well, yes. But they have also made the greatest gains in the past decade. They may not like paying those (elder) Bush and Clinton tax increases, but they sure like the economy that followed."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.
