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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (6039)	3/9/2004 10:10:21 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Exit Poll: Democratic Primary Voters Angry With President Bush NBC 6 News Team POSTED: 8:25 pm EST March 9, 2004 MIAMI -- Half the voters in Florida's Democratic presidential primary say they are angry with President Bush's administration, according to an Associated Press exit poll. The poll also find that the voters say they are worse off financially than they were four years ago and favor reducing the U.S. military presence in Iraq. Senator John Kerry won the state easily in a race that featured low turnout. The race was a foregone conclusion since Kerry essentially wrapped up the Democratic nomination last week. Voters said the top two issues they care about are the economy or jobs and health care or Medicare. The poll of more than 1,100 voters was conducted for the Associate Press and television networks by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points. Eight in 10 voters polled said they believe the state of the national economy is "not so good" or "poor." Almost half of voters said their family's financial situation is worse today than it was four years ago, while a third say about the same and only around one in ten said it is better.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (6039)	3/9/2004 11:03:50 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

That's the stupidest response I've ever seen. I guess what they say about you is right. Anyway, you're a prime example for the argument that Kerry will blow the election. With all due respect.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (6039)	3/9/2004 11:25:57 PM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Capital gains and earnings should be taxed the same, because in this economy money/investment is easy to get and qualified labor is hard. Short term gains (like traders make) ARE taxed the same as earnings. But if you double your money in ten years or so on a house for instance, how much did you really make after inflation? You had one house and ten years later you still have...one house. Why should that purely illusory gain be taxed at all? Same story if it was GE or some other stock. I agree with you about FICA, though. It drives a wedge between employers & employees in the first millisecond of employment.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (6039)	3/9/2004 11:35:06 PM
From: TopCat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

>>>Corporate taxes are at 70 year lows as a % of GDP, basically they need to be tripled, that is the reality.<<< I thought you were concerned about jobs. Raise corporate taxes and to the extent that the corporations can't pass it on to the consumer (you see, corporations don't really pay taxes....you do as the consumer of their products and services), more people will be out of a job....or, heaven forbid, more will be outsourced. TC