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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (129641)	2/28/2001 12:32:22 PM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"(& we all know that in real life, employees have a much harder time shielding income from taxation than the owners of businesses or capital)" What are these "shields" Nadine?. I own a business and have some capital (less and less every day lately). The only shields I have been able to come up with are mortgage interest and charitable contributions. Please enlighten me on the others. "then you should target the tax cuts" You are not qualified (and neither is the dem party) to decide who gets what. Targeting the tax cuts is called re-distributing the wealth. I contend that the top 1% paying 21% of the taxes (your statistics) is FAIR enough. Again, what percentage do you feel they should pay. 30%, 50%, 100%? What is it Nadine?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (129641)	2/28/2001 12:43:44 PM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"it does not benefit you in the long run to destroy large sections of your middle class" This is where you and me are truly different. I don't like the attitiude that anyone is "destroying" the middle class. I have seen no evidence that the affluent are doing this. Why do you feel the middle class of America cannot fend for themselves? What qualifies you (or the dem party) to decide which particular group of American should have more of the affluent people's money? It is quiet arrogant imo for the gov't to say that we have taken in more money than we need, so a certain percentage of Americans is now entitled to the cash that the more successful one's OVERPAID. At some point the group that you feel underpay (the ones that really overpay) really will just "put the money in the bank" as you contend they already do.