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To: JDN who wrote (116923)	5/29/2005 7:14:05 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793721

without reference to current exemptions, deductions, dependents and possible itemized deductions plus chid tax credits.. i doubt many families with a couple of kids pay any federal income tax if they earn less than $35,000. Now if we just stopped the nonsense of requiring these people to file taxes each year. I expect a lot of these people are also getting food stamps etc. If we wanted we could look at an offset in social programs vs filing income taxes each year. I doubt any changes in tax would change these people votes in considering social programs etc. It just seems such a waste to see the poor and elderly filing into various locations to get their taxes done every year to pay a small amount of tax that probably costs the IRS as much in cost to process.