To: Brumar89 who wrote (94516 ) 4/15/2007 11:01:42 PM From: Kevin Rose Read Replies (1) | Respond to Pure nonsense. "Taxing the rich" always means taxing the middle class too. Example - the AMT started out as a tax to prevent millionaires from avoiding income tax by selective investment - now it punishes upper middle income people. The income tax itself started out as a tax on only the rich, now everyone pays. The phasing out of child credits and deductions affects my family and we're a double income professional and school teacher family. There are two sides to this. Just label goods by origin - already done and let people be free to buy what they want or not. Banning imports hurts poor consumers. And the impact of imports may be overstated. I've read Walmart imports $18B of goods from China yet when I look at their financial statements I see their cost of goods sold was $258B last year - where is the rest coming from? Well, maybe some from Mexico, Indonesia, etc. but its not all coming from overseas. As far as I know the US used waterboarding on something less than two dozen foreign terrorists, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Despite the claims I don't believe we're using widespread torture. Warrants aren't needed for foreign monitoring and thats been the position of every administration since Carters. Foreign terrorists captured fighting Americans abroad don't have and shouldn't have habeas corpus. What? The FBI didn't open Moussawi's laptop before 911. Think they should have?
