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Or he'd tell the student they could undo their seatbelt because it was hard to skydive with an airplane strapped to their ass. That was one of many One Lines I liked the most.

Dennis my brother, I've always enjoyed our talks. I'm going to miss you, you brought a great deal of joy to my life. Your laugh and smile will be missed, but your friendship and memory I will carry with me through out my remaining years.

> it controls its borders with Gaza, like any other country. This doesn't include the USA by the way.

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Yes and I pay for them Do I use the Job Corps? Ohio direction card? Section8 housing? School lunch? head start? Energy assit? public xport/rail? Nope and I pay for them That's my tiny little beef. Now you guys can talk clouds around how if I didn't pay for these programs the social economic burden would be that much greater on myself due to the poor's lack of access to help. When individuals in Congress/Senate enact laws that forcible removes money from your pocket, for i.e. the greater good, You should smile with pride. You can look down on your children and say, sorry sweet heart someone other than you is more deserving, maybe next year.

Sounds like you should have voted for him then. You could use a president who knows how to save money. Well you might have been right, but as I've said earlier it appears he will pay MA. tax on a boat that is docked legally out of State. That in itself says alot.

Hey, I was only being truthful...and like I said, Kerry did the right thing, well initially, it now appears he is going to pay $500,000.00 in taxes he does'nt really owe but fells pressured into doing so. Now, that is just plan stupid from a tax point of view.

As long as its not cheap beer.

LIBs...Do as I say, not as I do. Hell I would diffently do the same. One thing Kerry does well, is he knows how to save $500,000.

Well, not that Californians need any additional Dreamdancer's Bopping about saying WOW backwards, but what do we expect from the Land of Fruits and Nuts, other than people being stupid. WEED, some people need to move on past High School and grow up.

But I suppose its a legal method to by pass a tax that otherwise would be imposed. I think corportations use this method as well with their aircraft, moving them to other states for a period of time every year to prevent paying large amounts of taxes. Its a good idea, and I think it should be incouraged. Like the Millionair tax imposed on millionair's in New York, what can one do other than take their money elsewhere.

Yep, it sucks that we educate our children and look after old people who've paid into Social Security all their working lives. Did you attend public school? Do you drive on public roads? To your point, Yes for all of the above. But what amount of Tax on income is enough? When my wife and I were first married all so many years ago we were not financially well off and owed a great deal to Credit Cards, our own doing. But like most families we cut back our spending and paid down our debt. As our income grew over the years we were able to increase our standard of living. Our government can't do without, thus it demands more and more and more of every dollar we earn. Is 39.6% enough or should it be much higher. It should be enough to balance the budget when times are good. Running a deficit when times are bad is OK PROVIDED it's paid back when times are good. and that is why we are screwed....... thinking like that will sink this country. So when I am over my head in credit card debt etc. but things suck I should just spend, spend, spend and "count" on the good times coming and that I will be able to pay it all off as soon as "x" happens or "y" happens. Ya that makes a whole lot of sense.... Are you kidding me???? Silly analogy, nations are not individuals. So you are OK with running deficits in bad times in hopes that someday *maybe* it will be paid back. This sounds like something you have posted to being against on many occasions. Which political party do you affiliate yourself with? (don't worry, I don't expect an honest answer) The Media, seems to be asking tough questions of Sen. John Kerry, who by the way served in Viet Nam why he has docked his $7,000,000 yacht in Rhode Island where he by passed having to pay $500,000 in taxes to Massachusetts and doesn't have to pay a $70,000 a year excise tax. I don't know why he donsn't just come on out and say its purely a business discission. Why in the HELL would I subject myself to a half million in taxes. Damn good move, I hope this sends a message to Massachusetts, GET THE HELL OUT OF MY POCKET!!!!

Yep, it sucks that we educate our children and look after old people who've paid into Social Security all their working lives. Did you attend public school? Do you drive on public roads? To your point, Yes for all of the above. But what amount of Tax on income is enough? When my wife and I were first married all so many years ago we were not financially well off and owed a great deal to Credit Cards, our own doing. But like most families we cut back our spending and paid down our debt. As our income grew over the years we were able to increase our standard of living. Our government can't do without, thus it demands more and more and more of every dollar we earn. Is 39.6% enough or should it be much higher.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/hr3590.asp It would appear from the site, I'm off the hook...or at least I hope so.

I just wanted to add one additional item to your reply. "HR-3590" Title IX Revenue Provisions-Subtitle A: Revenue Offset "(Sec. 9002) Requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer-sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employee's gross income (excluding the value of contributions to flexible spending arrangements)." I'm not completly up to spead on this but if passed and I'm not sure it has, starting in 2011 the W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are provided. Your gross income will go up by the amount of insurance your employer paid for. This can be a significant tax increase to any family that has coverage through their employer and extremely significant if both spouses carry coverage.

The Have Nots are entitled to your money. There are things people can do. Senitor Kerry is docking his new yacht in RI. to bypass MA. taxes. Move to Florida or Texas can save you some big bucks, Lebron James saved Millions by playing for the Miami Heat, but he want escape 2011 without moving.

We will wait and see.

Aside from the personal opinion being added to this article it is all FACT! The tax hikes, revisions, or expirations are all true. Scare tactic or not.... it's still true so I guess you need to ask yourself, does the truth scare you? It should! And all I was trying to do, was be helpful...nerve of some people.

Three deep breaths...that should help calm you.

Well I'm not sure what your getting at. I think the idea was, is it better to pass on in the tax year 2010 than in 2011. George Steinbrenner taking the oppertunity to kick the bucket this year saved his family millions. Had he waited till 2011, that would have been a 55% tax kick in the ass to his estate, family.

Copied from a Web page. As for me and my family, we expect to be hit rather hard next year. But for some, I'm sure this is rather good news and they will welcome it with open pockets. "Fiscal Policy: Many voters are looking forward to 2011, hoping a new Congress will put the country back on the right track. But unless something's done soon, the new year will also come with a raft of tax hikes — including a return of the death tax — that will be real killers. Through the end of this year, the federal estate tax rate is zero — thanks to the package of broad-based tax cuts that President Bush pushed through to get the economy going earlier in the decade. But as of midnight Dec. 31, the death tax returns — at a rate of 55% on estates of $1 million or more. The effect this will have on hospital life-support systems is already a matter of conjecture. Resurrection of the death tax, however, isn't the only tax problem that will be ushered in Jan. 1. Many other cuts from the Bush administration are set to disappear and a new set of taxes will materialize. And it's not just the rich who will pay. The lowest bracket for the personal income tax, for instance, moves up 50% — to 15% from 10%. The next lowest bracket — 25% — will rise to 28%, and the old 28% bracket will be 31%. At the higher end, the 33% bracket is pushed to 36% and the 35% bracket becomes 39.6%. But the damage doesn't stop there. The marriage penalty also makes a comeback, and the capital gains tax will jump 33% — to 20% from 15%. The tax on dividends will go all the way from 15% to 39.6% — a 164% increase. Both the cap-gains and dividend taxes will go up further in 2013 as the health care reform adds a 3.8% Medicare levy for individuals making more than $200,000 a year and joint filers making more than $250,000. Other tax hikes include: halving the child tax credit to $500 from $1,000 and fixing the standard deduction for couples at the same level as it is for single filers. Letting the Bush cuts expire will cost taxpayers $115 billion next year alone, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and $2.6 trillion through 2020. But even more tax headaches lie ahead. This "second wave" of hikes, as Americans for Tax Reform puts it, are designed to pay for ObamaCare and include: The Medicine Cabinet Tax. Americans, says ATR, "will no longer be able to use health savings account, flexible spending account, or health reimbursement pretax dollars to purchase nonprescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin)." The HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike. "This provision of ObamaCare," according to ATR, "increases the additional tax on nonmedical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10% to 20%, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10%." Brand Name Drug Tax. Makers and importers of brand-name drugs will be liable for a tax of $2.5 billion in 2011. The tax goes to $3 billion a year from 2012 to 2016, then $3.5 billion in 2017 and $4.2 billion in 2018. Beginning in 2019 it falls to $2.8 billion and stays there. And who pays the new drug tax? Patients, in the form of higher prices. Economic Substance Doctrine. ATR reports that "The IRS is now empowered to disallow perfectly legal tax deductions and maneuvers merely because it judges that the deduction or action lacks 'economic substance.'" A third and final (for now) wave, says ATR, consists of the alternative minimum tax's widening net, tax hikes on employers and the loss of deductions for tuition: • The Tax Policy Center, no right-wing group, says that the failure to index the AMT will subject 28.5 million families to the tax when they file next year, up from 4 million this year. • "Small businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly deduct, or 'depreciate') equipment purchases up to $250,000," says ATR. "This will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, all of it will have to be 'depreciated.'" • According to ATR, there are "literally scores of tax hikes on business that will take place," plus the loss of some tax credits. The research and experimentation tax credit will be the biggest loss, "but there are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the loss of this tax relief will cost jobs." • The deduction for tuition and fees will no longer be available and there will be limits placed on education tax credits. Teachers won't be able to deduct their classroom expenses and employer-provided educational aid will be restricted. Thousands of families will no longer be allowed to deduct student loan interest. Then there's the tax on Americans who decline to buy health care insurance (the tax the administration initially said wasn't a tax but now argues in court that it is) plus a 3.8% Medicare tax beginning in 2013 on profits made in real estate transactions by wealthier Americans. Not all Americans may fully realize what's in store come Jan. 1. But they should have a pretty good idea by the mid-term elections, and members of Congress might take note of our latest IBD/TIPP Poll (summarized above). Fifty-one percent of respondents favored making the Bush cuts permanent vs. 28% who didn't. Republicans were more than 4 to 1 and Independents more than 2 to 1 in favor. Only Democrats were opposed, but only by 40%-38%. The cuts also proved popular among all income groups — despite the Democrats' oft-heard assertion that Bush merely provided "tax breaks for the wealthy." Fact is, Bush cut taxes for everyone who paid them, and the cuts helped the nation recover from a recession and the worst stock-market crash since 1929. Maybe, just maybe, Americans remember that — and will not forget come Nov. 2."

Banks circulate money. I take it that you forget that the Depression was made worse because people pulled their money out of banks so it wasn't available for investment. Unemployment checks hit the economy in minutes. Yeah. Take money out of the economy and putting it back in does not seem to be good for the economy. [Reply]Or raise taxes to nab some of those elitist, hard-stolen dollars. This statement says it all. The taxes aren't about helping anybody but are about punishing one or more groups of people that you want to see suffer. Of course, the true "elitists" are the ones with the self-anointed authority to determine who should and should not be punished. You don't care about people. You hate some people. You'll get further if you admit that because it will display some intellectual honesty. As Luck would have it,...don't exspect intellectual honesty coming from him anytime soon. Ewwwww, so shrewd . Thx for contributing your usual nothing. I find your Rants somewhat confusing...but I'm sure its just me.

Banks circulate money. I take it that you forget that the Depression was made worse because people pulled their money out of banks so it wasn't available for investment. Unemployment checks hit the economy in minutes. Yeah. Take money out of the economy and putting it back in does not seem to be good for the economy. [Reply]Or raise taxes to nab some of those elitist, hard-stolen dollars. This statement says it all. The taxes aren't about helping anybody but are about punishing one or more groups of people that you want to see suffer. Of course, the true "elitists" are the ones with the self-anointed authority to determine who should and should not be punished. You don't care about people. You hate some people. You'll get further if you admit that because it will display some intellectual honesty. As Luck would have it,...don't exspect intellectual honesty coming from him anytime soon.

I noticed a bumper sticker on a car the other day, "PISS OFF A LIBERAL, GET A JOB" I found it interesting, maybe thats why so many of them live in New York, well at least when it comes to paying taxes. Just an observation

You don't mind your taxes going up?? Hell thats just plan Goofy