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


To: JakeStraw who wrote (418854)6/26/2003 8:06:18 AM
From: Arthur Radley  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769669
 
Yes....and the average guy had a job then. Jake...this issue of the rich isn't an overnight phenom....the point is if they can get so rich without these huge tax breaks, why does Shrub NOW have to give them a break in their taxes...



To: JakeStraw who wrote (418854)6/26/2003 8:28:34 AM
From: Ish  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769669
 
If Texas Dummy would have posted the whole article it would have included this-

Those numbers can be read to show that the wealthiest, as a group, carried a disproportionate share of the overall tax burden — 1.6 percent of all taxes, versus just 1.1 percent of all income — evidence that all sides in the tax debate will be able to find ammunition in the data.