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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (21200)	8/15/2008 8:17:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

Who in Hell cares about mere tactics, when it's the RESULTS that matter! HOW one arrives at a result ('good result', 'bad result', 'indifferent result', etc.) is much less important than the actual FACT of that result: (As in 'The amazing deficit-expanding / economy tanking mismanager-in-chief'....)

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (21200)	8/18/2008 12:00:24 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

I know it is an old subject by now GZ, but I have completed as thorough a search as I can on Obama's tax plans, dating back to 2007. I can't find the reference you referred to about doubling the capital gains tax, nor can I find such a reference in any speech in the past two weeks. Nothing on any Obama website, NDP website, or by crossreferencing any of Obama's economic advisors. Are you sure you heard that? I try to pay attention to what the candidates say on taxes (for obvious reasons <g>) and I can't find the reference you related. It would be very important, of course, and if implemented by Obama as President and a democratic congress could be expected to prompt an early liquidation of many investment positions. Which is why I think it would have gotten a lot more press if he had said it on the record, vs. the 20% actual proposal just made.