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To: i-node who wrote (566350)	5/15/2010 12:24:14 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1583326

I guess the tax payers will also pay for their pot and munchies

To: i-node who wrote (566350)	5/15/2010 12:27:10 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583326

That's old isn't it? She or someone has said that before about artists can be free to aspire to greater heights unburdened by the demands to make a living...

To: i-node who wrote (566350)	5/15/2010 12:56:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583326

Anti democratic Rs at their finest........ CAN'T BRING THESE FOLKS ANYWHERE.... The Maine Republican Party raised a few eyebrows this week when it endorsed a right-wing party platform combining "fringe policies, libertarian buzzwords and outright conspiracy theories." Almost as interesting was the Maine GOP's behavior at the meeting where the platform was adopted. Republican activists held their annual gathering at the Portland Exposition Building, near a local middle school. GOP members used an eighth-grade classroom for a caucus meeting, and took it upon themselves to start making some changes. (thanks to several alert readers for the tip) "We allowed them to use the space and I'm appalled that they would go through a teacher's things, let alone remove something from a classroom," [School Committee member Sarah Thompson] said Wednesday. "We want the public to use school spaces, but they need to respect that it's a school and understand that they should leave it the way they find it." [...] When [social studies teacher Paul Clifford] returned to school on Monday, he found that a favorite poster about the U.S. labor movement had been taken and replaced with a bumper sticker that read, "Working People Vote Republican." Later, Clifford learned that his classroom had been searched. Republicans who had attended the convention called Principal Mike McCarthy to complain about "anti-American" things they saw there, including a closed box containing copies of the U.S. Constitution that were published by the American Civil Liberties Union. There's just something oddly spectacular about Republican activists describing a copy of the U.S. Constitution as "anti-American" because they didn't approve of the group that distributed the copy. Party officials later apologized for the members' misconduct.

To: i-node who wrote (566350)	5/15/2010 1:05:21 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1583326

You should get Lincoln to become an R. She lies real good....just like the best Rs. BLANCHE LINCOLN NEGLECTS TO DO HER HOMEWORK.... It's peculiar to me that Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) would invest so much time and energy in repealing the estate tax. With an enormous budget deficit, and a budget in which scarce resources are needed for a variety of policy goals, pushing tax cuts that exclusively benefit millionaires and billionaires seems to reflect misguided priorities. But Lincoln has worked on this issue for years, and whether it makes sense or not, she's not giving up the fight. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) on Thursday told The Hill that a fix for the estate tax should be aimed at helping small businesses, and not wealthier taxpayers since they have the resources to weather whatever tax rate Congress throws at them. [...] "I don't think there's any American out there who believes you should work all of your life to find that when you die, 55 percent of [your estate] has got to go to the government," the senator said. "Coming up with more balanced exemptions and rates is critical." That may sound reasonable at first blush, but Pat Garofalo explains that Lincoln's description of the policy is simply wrong. [T]he estate tax -- like the personal income tax -- is calculated on marginal income, the particular percentage is only levied on amounts above the exemption. So if the exemption is $3.5 million, the first $3.5 million of the estate is passed on entirely tax free. Tax is only paid on the first dollar in excess of that. So an estate worth $3,500,001 would have a tax bill of .45 cents under 2009 law. The effective tax rate -- the amount paid as a percentage of the entire estate -- owed by people who actually had to pay any estate tax at all in 2009 was about 14 percent. There were no grieving widows who have to hand over half of everything they own to the government. As for Lincoln's concerns for small businesses, her argument is, again, unsupported by reality. It's bad enough for the conservative Democrat's concerns for the Walton family have compelled her to push this bad idea, but the least she could do, after years of effort, is get the details right.