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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (17248)	10/9/2004 4:35:52 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

"Time they started paying their fair share again." Wow - what is their fair share? They already pay most of the income taxes! When is the last time you got a job from a poor guy - or for that matter, a job from anyone? Most egregious in the kerry class warfare speel is the complete refusal to recognize the role of small business in job creation in America. Is he stupid or simply evil?

To: American Spirit who wrote (17248)	10/9/2004 5:29:37 PM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 27181

'NO NEW TAXES'Biggest LIAR of century!eom

To: American Spirit who wrote (17248)	10/9/2004 5:56:31 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Just to show you how clueless Kerry is: 1) Most jobs in this country are created by small businesses. 2) Most small businesses are taxed at the personal income tax level. 3) Most small businessmen take extraordinary risks to get to the highest tax brackets. For instance, what's $200k a year? That's the combined annual income of a small businessman working slave hours and his first heart attack and maybe a low maintenance wife working 9 to 5 in retail or the corporate world. Put another way, that annual income level could easily be that of a single storefront owner gambling on a second location. 4) By increasing the load on the highest tax brackets starting at $200K, you in effect create a greater disincentive for the economy's greatest risk-takers and job creators. 5) Aside from the fact that the idle rich can afford more lawyers and tax accountants to pursue tax minimization strategies which invariably render most tax increase projections wholly unreliable, taxing the highest tax brackets also doesn't work because there are just not enough rich people. And when that happens the sad truth is that politicians will always find ways to tax the large middle class which is always where the money is as far as funding government programs go. 6) The wages of Europe's welfare state sins are now showing up in persistent unemployment rates around 10% or more and sluggish economic growth. Why would anyone want to narrow the growing difference between the higher tax welfare states in Europe and the lower tax environment here in the US which remains the best place in the world to invest and start a business? It's almost a God-given right for any American business, big or small, to have access to the numerous sources of capital and Kerry want's something closer to Europe where you need to be born right or marry well to even have access to capital? All that should not be surprising. Small business support Bush by something like 60/40 or 70/30 because they can smell Kerry's type of elitism almost immediately. The facts of the matter are that Kerry has never made more money than his wives or even made money outside of government so how can anyone that cuckolded be expected to understand these dynamics?