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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (171847)	8/16/2001 12:47:02 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

"Are you one of the people that thinks the people who paid NO fed income tax should have gotten a rebate?" I hate to be the one to break it to ya, but NO ONE is getting a REBATE. NO ONE. These $300 or $600 checks are ADVANCE PAYMENT CHECKS. They ARE NOT REBATES of any kind. Second, people who paid NO FED TAX are NOT getting checks! "In general, if you paid taxes for 2000, you may be eligible for this advance payment of the 2001 credit. If you did not pay any income tax for 2000, you are not eligible for the advance payment. Your 2000 return will show if you did not pay income tax. If line 51 on Form 1040 is zero, there was no income tax and you will not receive an advance payment check. Form 1040A filers should look at line 33; 1040EZ filers, line 10. DON'T BE ANOTHER TOMMY WATSON or GOLDWORLDNET! GET THINGS RIGHT! NO ONE IS GETTING REBATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To: Srexley who wrote (171847)	8/16/2001 1:08:35 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush's re-distribution of wealth very simple - from federal coffers (our surplus) to Big Energy and the very rich. Energy bill spikes which are engineered to help Bush-Cheney's agressive "drill and pollute more" campaign more than wipe out the 33 billion tax cut (another 33 billion offered Big Oil to drill more, which is a double theft of public money), only a part of which goes to the people who need it. Bush's height of cynicism showing his true colors was when he urged Americans (throwing them pennies and taking their dollars) to use their tax cuts to pay for the energy bills. The agenda is clear. Domination by Big Energy and the fleecing of America, except for the rich who get richer. Want to debate that one? Want to try and defend it? Expect more spikes and gouging whenever they feel they can get away with it. Bush-Cheney have already announced that they'll work withnOPEC to bring oil prices back up to the 25-30 dollar range. Gee thanks, GW. As Bush ally and Big Oil lobbyist/Senator Murkowski of Alaska was quoted as saying "They're just not high enough yet!" (meaning oil prices to scare us into letting them have our wildlands, and that was back in March when they were muchy higher). Soon the surplus will be a thing of the past and you will find more money transfered into the hands of Big Energy that any of the tax cuts. Only the very rich get back more than the increases in their energy bills. And the real victim is the environment. So we'll have a deficit spending government again. Weaker government, stronger Texas Energy Cartel, more soft money to Bush-Cheney, more dishonest disinformation ads on TV to confuse voters, more posing as a moderate with compassion, less democracy, less chances of anyone in the GOP being able to unseat Bush. That is the Big Plan and every move they make is an obvious part of it. What will stop this? People power. Voting the bums out of congress in 2002. And a Senate Investigation. The Jeffords move coincided with the end of the gouging (no coincidence) and may in the end punish the offenders. And once someone takes the lead in challenging this Energy Cartel White House many-many will follow. It hasn't happened yet but it must and will.