EXACTLY
--- Virgil Bierschwale <vbiersch AT ktc .D.O.T com> wrote:
> To me, everybody should pay the same percentage...no
> deductions....EVEN if
> you only make 6,000 a year....if its 10 %, you owe 600
> bucks..period.
>
>
> Virgil Bierschwale
> http://www.itspasttime.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: profox-bounces@leafe.com
> [mailto:profox-bounces AT leafe .D.O.T com] On Behalf
> Of Michael Madigan
> Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 1:39 PM
> To: ProFox Email List
> Subject: RE: [OT] Empathy for Republicans
>
> I still think a flat tax without any deductions works. A man
> making
> $1,000,000 should pay 10 x in real dollars as a man making
> 100,000. A man
> making $30,000 pays $4500, and man making $1,000,000 pays
> $150,000.
>
> I think that would take out some resentments on both sides.
> The rich can't
> get any crazy tax shelters, the poor can't take a free ride.
>
> Why should a man making $12,000 a year pay no taxes at all?
>
>
> --- Virgil Bierschwale <vbiersch@ktc.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm not the enemy michael as I agree with you.
> > I've been on both sides of the coin and life was a lot easier
> when I
> > was making 12,000 a month then now when I'm making 5 - 10,000
> a year.
> > Funny thing is though, I still live about the same, I just
> don't have
> > the money to buy the toy's, etc. that I may want or think I
> need.
> >
> > To me, the definition of wealthy is when your assets and
> investments
> > allow you to continue making money without you having to work
> for
> > someone else at a mindnumbing 40 - 50 hr a week job where you
> probably
> > spend a good many hours commuting on top of the work.
> >
> >
> > Virgil Bierschwale
> > http://www.itspasttime.org
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: profox-bounces AT leafe .D.O.T com
> > [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Michael
> Madigan
> > Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 12:36 PM
> > To: ProFox Email List
> > Subject: RE: [OT] Empathy for Republicans
> >
> > I know a ballplayer making 2 million a year thinks he's poor
> compared
> > to a ballplayer making 24 million a year.
> >
> > The median household income in NJ is 60,000. What is
> considered
> > wealthy?
> > 120,000? 180,000? 240,000? I don't know. But there are
> people in
> > NJ making 100,000,000 a year, so clearly making 200k is no
> where close
> > to making 100,000,000.
> >
> > --- Virgil Bierschwale <vbiersch AT ktc .D.O.T com> wrote:
> >
> > > Actually michael, you would be surprised.
> > > I'm probably the only one in my whole family that broke the
> > 40,000
> > > barrier, let alone the 140,000 barrier <grin>
> > >
> > > There is a whole world out there that makes less than
> 40,000
> > with both
> > > partners working and they have raised and supported a
> family
> > on it.
> > >
> > > If that's not poverty, I don't know what is, but you
> wouldn't
> > hear
> > > them think of themselves in that way.
> > >
> > > We get so used to our "narrow" perception of reality
> because
> > we live
> > > in a area of like minded people who tend to go to the same
> > areas that
> > > other like minded people go too.
> > >
> > > Get out sometime and ask that pretty veternarian or the
> local
> > county
> > > clerk what they make for a living. Believe me, you will be
> > surprised
> > > <grin>
> > >
> > > By the way, I'm not saying we shouldn't try to do better as
> > I'm very
> > > motivated when it comes to bettering my situation. Its just
> > that I
> > > have also learned that the best things in life are not
> > things.
> > >
> > >
> > > Virgil Bierschwale
> > > http://www.itspasttime.org
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: profox-bounces@leafe.com
> > > [mailto:profox-bounces AT leafe .D.O.T com] On Behalf Of Michael
> Madigan
> > > Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 11:06 AM
> > > To: ProFox Email List
> > > Subject: RE: [OT] Empathy for Republicans
> > >
> > > You must be retarded.
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Kristyne McDaniel <newsbox@mcstyles.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Michael,
> > > >
> > > > > I live comfortably now, but I am not "wealthy".
> > > >
> > > > Apparently you don't know when you are well off. If doing
> > > better than
> > > > more than 98% of the rest of the population doesn't let
> you
> > > feel that
> > > > you are doing well, then I pity you.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > >
> > > > - Kris
> > > >
> > > > www.shamrocktrails.com
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > =====
> > > If the election were held today, who would Osama Bin Laden
> > vote
> > > for?
> > >
> > > A. John Kerry
> > > B. Ralph Nader
> > > C. George Bush
> > >
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