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Just curious... why do you think that the loophole in question should
remain open?<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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g. crabtree wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I knew I liked this guy. By the way,
Sali's office is readily available from the link you thoughtfully
provided by simply clicking on the contact tab on the home page. This
will take you to a page with a great big E-MAIL BILL button. I
encourage you to take him up on it and offer him a warm and heart felt
thank you.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">g</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">From: "Tom Hansen" <</font><a
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com"><font face="Arial" size="2">thansen@moscow.com</font></a><font
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">To: "Vision 2020" <</font><a
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><font face="Arial" size="2">vision2020@moscow.com</font></a><font
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007
6:56 AM</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Subject: [Vision2020] House Passes
Bill Linking Tax Cuts, Minimum Wage</font></div>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">> >From Today's (February 17, 2007)
Spokesman Review -<br>
> <br>
> "The House bill would also raise revenue by closing a loophole
that permits<br>
> wealthy taxpayers to shift income to their children and avoid
higher taxes<br>
> on capital gains and dividends."<br>
> <br>
> Representative Bill Sali, who continues to be inaccessible to the
citizens<br>
> of Idaho from his website at </font><a
href="http://sali.house.gov/"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://sali.house.gov/</font></a><font
face="Arial" size="2">, voted against this<br>
> bill.<br>
> <br>
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> <br>
> House passes bill linking tax cuts, minimum wage<br>
> <br>
> Jim Kuhnhenn <br>
> Associated Press<br>
> February 17, 2007<br>
> <br>
> WASHINGTON - The House overwhelmingly approved business tax breaks
worth<br>
> $1.8 billion over 10 years on Friday, a key step toward forging a<br>
> congressional compromise on increasing the minimum wage.<br>
> <br>
> The vote on the tax cuts was 360-45.<br>
> <br>
> Passage of a wage hike for the lowest-paid workers now depends on
how<br>
> quickly the House and Senate work out differences between their tax<br>
> packages. The Senate tax breaks - worth $8.3 billion - are more
than four<br>
> times bigger than the ones passed in the House.<br>
> <br>
> Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said House
and Senate<br>
> negotiators could reconcile differences in the bills within two or
three<br>
> weeks.<br>
> <br>
> "The minimum wage provision is going to trump all of this and is
going to<br>
> drive us to get this thing done pretty quickly," Baucus said.<br>
> <br>
> Under the House bill, small businesses would see an extension in
some tax<br>
> write-offs that are scheduled to expire and would be able to
continue to<br>
> claim a tax credit for hiring disadvantaged workers. The
legislation also<br>
> would ensure that restaurants, which can deduct Social Security
taxes paid<br>
> on tips above the minimum wage, would not be hurt by the wage hike.<br>
> <br>
> The House bill would also raise revenue by closing a loophole that
permits<br>
> wealthy taxpayers to shift income to their children and avoid
higher taxes<br>
> on capital gains and dividends.<br>
> <br>
> The House vote displayed the influence the Senate's Republican
minority can<br>
> have on congressional legislation. House Democrats had demanded a
minimum<br>
> wage bill without any tax provisions. Senate Democrats insisted
that without<br>
> some tax relief, the minimum wage would lose necessary Republican
backing.<br>
> <br>
> Senate Republican officials predicted the final tax package would
be closer<br>
> to the House version than the Senate's. Small business groups have
sided<br>
> with the Senate, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is lobbying for
the House<br>
> version.<br>
> <br>
> Eager to begin their weeklong Presidents Day recess, lawmakers
spent little<br>
> time debating the tax cuts and acted under expedited procedures
that<br>
> required a two-thirds majority, a threshold the vote easily met.<br>
> <br>
> The minimum wage bill had become the new Democratic majority's
first<br>
> legislative challenge. The $2.10 an hour increase - from $5.15 to
$7.25 over<br>
> two years - was a Democratic campaign issue last year and was at
the top of<br>
> the party's legislative agenda. But the bill stumbled when House
and Senate<br>
> Democrats disagreed on the need for tax cuts.<br>
> <br>
> With its $8.3 billion tax package, the Senate would extend tax
credits and<br>
> tax write-offs, and provides new tax preferences to certain
companies. It<br>
> also would eliminate some tax shelters and add new taxes on lawsuit<br>
> settlements and punitive damage payments and on deferred
compensation<br>
> packages for higher paid executives.<br>
> <br>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------<br>
> <br>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>
> <br>
> Tom Hansen<br>
> Moscow, Idaho<br>
> <br>
> "Forty percent of the mass of every tree in the forest is crude
oil. Stop<br>
> and think about that. We call them fossil fuels because they used
to be<br>
> live stuff, now is in the ground is turned into crude oil." <br>
> <br>
> - Bill Sali (September 21, 2006)<br>
> </font><a
href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Stuff/Sali_Tree_Energy.mp3"><font
face="Arial" size="2">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Stuff/Sali_Tree_Energy.mp3</font></a><br>
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