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To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (94967)	3/13/2002 1:52:57 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Joan, Wow, you are getting good with the code. <g>

To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (94967)	3/13/2002 2:20:08 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Hi Joan, I seem to remember that you put in your profile that you were collecting social security. I was just looking into it and I had not realized that they add up all a couple's income, including tax-free income and maybe even returns or capital, and also half of your social security payments, and then if all that exceeds $34,000, they tax 85% of your social security as ordinary income. It sounds as if what they take goes right into general revenues, paying for wonderful things like thermobaric bombs and abstract expressionist poetry.

To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (94967)	3/13/2002 3:05:48 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hi again Joan, I promise to quit gumming up this thread with my posts, but somebody besides you and me seems to have discovered FAX. I hope that the discount keeps closing; they were planning to buy in stock to help that. I am happy as a clam because I have something like 15-20% of our entire net worth in FAX.