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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (70294)	6/8/2006 9:37:48 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362352

The estates of many billionaires and millionaires are stuffed full of money that came from feeding at the government trough at taxpayer expense, anyway. Bush is busting a gut to avoid paying estate tax on the huge estate that Daddy and Babs will leave.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (70294)	6/8/2006 11:06:46 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 362352

Hi Karen, Here is what I wrote a year ago or so about the so-called "death tax" and I will say it again.. And throw down the gauntlet to ALL these so-called "hard right individualists".. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Public Reply \| Prvt Reply \| Mark as Last Read \| File \| Keep Previous 50 \| Next 50 \| Previous \| Next To: stockman_scott who wrote (22858) 6/17/2005 11:30:27 PM From: coug Read Replies (1) of 70312 LOL scott, This tax thing makes me think of something else along the lines of taxes.. If ALL these RW entrapenuers, rugged individualists and ALL, <vbg>, etc. wanted to PROVE their individual prowess in the market place, they would WANT a 100% inheritance TAX so that EVERYONE got a EVEN start.. With everyone starting out the gate even, the WOMB in this case, I would like to see who whould win..<g> Would shrub then be more than a ribbon clerk? Would the current Rockifellers now be sitting in a rockingchair or sleeping under a bridge? How would the current Kennedys be doing? How would Mellon-scaifes do? I don't know, but I am willing to compete and see? Just a thought.. m Message 21428961 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BTW, I didn't get any RWE takers on SI.. <g> m

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (70294)	6/9/2006 4:58:32 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362352

Maybe we should treat illegals the way Mexico does. Stepping Over the Line Don't try sneaking north across Mexico's other border. By Joseph Contreras Newsweek June 5, 2006 issue - Ever since he crossed into Mexico, José Moisés has had nothing but trouble. Now the 30-year-old Honduran mechanic is hunkered down with other young illegal migrants in a rail yard just north of Mexico City, waiting for nightfall to hop a northbound freight. He displays a pale line encircling his finger. He used to have a ring there, he says—until Mexican cops slammed him against a squad car in the southern border state of Chiapas and grabbed it. "They took everything," says Moisés. "Here the Central American has no value." As tough as the United States can be for workers who slip in from south of the border, Mexico is in a poor position to criticize. The problem goes far beyond the predatory gantlet of thugs and crooked cops facing defenseless transients like Moisés. There's ample precedent in Mexico for just about everything the United States is—or isn't—doing. Calling out the military? Mexicans may hate the new U.S. plan to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops on the border, but five years ago they cheered President Vicente Fox for sending thousands of Mexican soldiers to crack down on their southern frontier. Tougher laws? Hispanic-rights groups are enraged over U.S. efforts to criminalize undocumented aliens—yet since 1974, sneaking into Mexico has been punishable by up to two years in prison. Foot-dragging on amnesty? Fox has spent the past five years urging the United States to upgrade the status of millions of illegals from Mexico. Meanwhile, his own government has given legal status to only 15,000 foreigners without papers. Some of the worst abuses take place on the coffee plantations of Chiapas state, where some 40,000 Guatemalan field hands endure backbreaking jobs and squalid living conditions to earn roughly $3.50 a day. Some growers even deduct the cost of room and board from that amount. "If you ask them, 'Why are you bringing in Guatemalans to work?' they say, 'You can't depend on Mexicans. They don't work hard; they're irresponsible'," says George Grayson, a political scientist specializing in Mexico at the College of William & Mary. "The truth is, you can pay [the guest workers] a pittance. And if they cause the slightest disturbance, you can send them back to Guatemala." At least a few Mexicans are balking at the hypocrisy. Late last year their National Human Rights Commission issued a report criticizing Mexico's widespread mistreatment of aliens; the report described sub- human facilities where captured illegals are kept until they can be deported. Several international news agencies ran stories on the publication. But most of Mexico's leading papers ignored it. With Monica Campbell msnbc.msn.com