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

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (543594)	2/21/2004 4:53:47 PM
From: Srexley	Respond to of 769670

You were good at dodgeball, I bet. Because you dodge the main question EVERY TIME. I am sure you are smart enough to see you are doing that (I believe it is on purpose, which is a bit dishonest). "You said "43%." I said I heard that, and it seemed reasonable. If 35% of their income is not enough to pay their share, then the flat rate would have to be even higher. What would this do to the poor souls at the bottom end of the income bracket that currently pay ZERO PERCENT. In addition to being dishonest, you are a heartless bastard too. "That means the income tax is regressive for the top 1%" 1st time you have been specific, and I have already posted to this effect. Do you want 100 tax brackets? No you want ONE. That is what a FLAT TAX IS. "I don't think a flat 10% income tax would be able to raise the $2.4 trillion that Bush wants to spend in 2005" I don't know. You are looking dumber and dumber though by not even being able to say what your tax plan is. The continual dodging of the issue is the most telling at all. I do KNOW that you have said: 1) The little guy pays too much taxes. 2) The rich guy does not pay enough. 3) You want a flat tax, which would result in MORE TAXES for the small guy (especially when you say 10% is not enough). 4) You say you want to tax "wealth", but have showed NO METHOD for measuring, or how to discern between people who blow their money and have NO WEALTH and people who invest it and have a lot. I could go on and on. But you are looking more like a dishonest nimrod with every post. And my main contention is that the top 1% paying 36% of our Fed Income taxes is more than fair. You have done NOTHING to change that opinion, and in fact have actually strengthened it. What a dork.