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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (21227)	8/18/2008 3:24:41 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

Re: But, he said "it should be twice as much as it is right now"... (No one can find any such statement. And pomp says he's been looking hard. Have you any idea where/when he was supposed to have said such a thing? It appears to be apocryphal.) Re: "I wouldn't count on the press examining anything he says too critically, they love him..." Well, 'love' or no love... they at least keep pretty close track of what all the candidates say, and write that stuff down. No one has been able to find any record of Obama ever saying he wanted to 'double' the capital gains tax rate. Closest that I've been able to find was where (this spring) he answered a question about it by saying that he was still considering where his proposed rate would be, and hadn't made his mind up, but that he knew that it would certainly not be any higher then the rate was during the Clinton admin. - when the maximum rate was 28%. All that is water under the bridge though now --- since he has finalized his proposal, it it says that he *wants to MAKE PERMANENT Bush's temporary* 15% rate, but also have a 20% incremental rate for individual income over $200,000 per year (or over $250,000 for joint returns)**. All permanent rates FAR LOWER then anything previous.