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

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (408090)	5/21/2003 12:07:59 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Why should he give it to the friggin government? He has the decency and honesty to say what Bush is proposing IS WRONG.....The lower classes MUST have lower taxes than the rich....and the tax cuts should go directly to them so they may spend it on real issues....HEALTH CARE...RENT....SCHOOL....FOOD.....just the little things CC

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (408090)	5/21/2003 12:08:22 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

How about your Social Security Taxes? Your Social Security Payroll Taxes are also taxed as income when they are paid. The benefits are then again taxed as income when they are received. This is a much more egregious case of double taxation than the taxation of divideds.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (408090)	5/21/2003 12:29:47 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I'm all for people giving as much in taxes as they want to. Buffett could in fact donate $10 billion and fund the entire AIDS program in Africa. Why won't he? As for Turner, he pledged a billion in stock in ten installments over ten years to the UN. Since he was trying to secure broadcast spectrums, rights of way and content distribution rights in several countries where the UN had control through peace-keeping, economic development and humanitarian efforts, this "donation" was nothing more than a self-serving business partnership. Don't know what ultimately happened to his pledge after the merger.