Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Dell Technologies Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patrick E.McDaniel who wrote (97126)	2/11/1999 9:15:00 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 176387

Patrick...OT....seems the Barbi doll mentality has caused greater damage on all fronts.......Tim

To: Patrick E.McDaniel who wrote (97126)	2/13/1999 10:00:00 PM
From: freeus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

OT More nonsense from how our government spends our money: 1. Former Governor (of Ca) Pete Wilson received a 26% raise in salary (from $131,000 to 165,000) in the final days of his administraion. This raise is in addition to the 15% raise he received last year! This new increase will boost Wilson's state pension by $1200 a month. 2. Approximately 1080 new laws went into effect in Ca on the first day of the new year. 3. The Alternative Minimum Tax originally aimed at the wealthy (as indeed the Income tax was originally only aimed at the wealthy) snags many middle-class families instead. Three decades ago, Congress, embarrassed by the disclosure that 155 wealthy Americans had paid no Federal income taxes, enacted legislation aimed at preventing the very rich from shielding their wealth in tax shelters. Today, that legislation (the alternative minimum tax) is forcing middle-clas taxpayers to pay additional tax. In 1988, the AMT affected about 124,000 individual returns. In 1999, it wll affect nearly one million taxpayers, including many with incomes of less than $100,000 some with incomes as modest as $30,000. and 4. A pencil recall is underway in UPstate New York because a would-be antidrug message on a pencil ran smack into real world physics. The pencils bear the message "too cool to do drugs" but as they are sharpened the message becomes "cool to do drugs" and then "do drugs" Pencils paid for by local education funds. Freeus