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To: bentway who wrote (3234)	2/18/2004 11:01:45 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I don't mind promoting freedom. I do mind an extremely wealthy man who undoubtedly pays an effective tax rate lower than anyone reading this thread and who is trying to get my taxes raised. I also don't see what promoting freedom has to do with promoting euthanasia.

To: bentway who wrote (3234)	2/18/2004 11:23:53 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

You're a patsy for propaganda. Educate yourself, nitwit. "Despite his carefully groomed media image, Soros is a controversial figure because on the one hand, as an international investor and currency speculator, he has become extremely wealthy (his fortune in 2000 was estimated at US$ five billion). On the other, he freely acknowledges that the current system of financial speculation undermines healthy economic development in many underdeveloped countries. Critics Critics point out that Soros plays the currency markets through Quantum Fund, his privately-owned investment fund registered in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, a Caribbean tax haven which has repeatedly been cited by the International Task Force on Money Laundering of the OECD as one of the world's most important centers for laundering the illegal proceeds of the Latin American drug trade. By operating from Curaçao, Soros avoids paying taxes, and also hides the nature of his investors, and what he does with their money. Soros has critics on both the left and right. American conservatives dislike his dump-Bush campaign, and hawkish friends of Israel dislike his rhetoric with inflammatory comparisons to Nazi Germany and Yasser Arafat. Former National Review contributor and ex-House Republican staffer Phil Brennan called Soros a "socialist billionaire".[1] Lowell Ponte of David Horowitz's Frontpage called Soros a "Billionaire for the Left".[2] Scott Shore of IntellectualConservative.com called him a "Soft Money Marxist."[3] He has also been called a self-hating Jewish anti-Semite. " en.wikipedia.org