<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Why is it that families making $60K pay only 3% of their income in taxes and I make less than half that and pay over 20%?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Oh, I know why, they have children and grandchildren that are expected to pay their share of the deficit, and I am expected to pay all of mine now, as I have no children to pass on the debt of my gluttonous lifestyle. . <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 4/16/09, Tom Hansen <I><thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Income Tax Burden Near Its All-Time Low<BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 5:51 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Courtesy of today's (April 16, 2009) Spokesman Review.<BR><BR>------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Income tax burden near its all-time low<BR>Gallup registers unusually favorable assessment of federal income taxes<BR>Lori Montgomery / Washington Post <BR><BR>WASHINGTON – As thousands of anti-tax protesters rallied across the nation <BR>Wednesday and the president promised tax cuts for most, new data showed <BR>that the federal income tax burden is already hovering near its lowest <BR>level in three decades for all but the wealthiest Americans.<BR><BR>The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the average <BR>family forked over barely 9 percent of its earnings to the IRS in 2006, <BR>the most recent year for which information is available. The effective tax <BR>rate hit its all-time low in 2003 and has crept up only slightly since.<BR><BR>Middle-class families – to whom President
Obama has delivered even more <BR>tax relief since he took office in January – have fared especially well, <BR>according to the CBO. The middle fifth of taxpayers, who earned an average <BR>of $60,700 per household in 2006, paid just 3 percent in federal income <BR>tax that year, down from a high of 8.3 percent in 1981.<BR><BR>With federal income taxes so low for so many families, a majority of those <BR>surveyed by Gallup last week said the amount of federal income taxes they <BR>pay is either “too low” or “about right,” compared with 46 percent who <BR>said their tax bills are “too high” – one of the most positive assessments <BR>of the federal tax burden since Gallup began asking the question in 1956.<BR><BR>Gallup analysts said the poll results may also reflect confidence in <BR>Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 a <BR>year, a vow he repeated Wednesday in a tax-day speech at the Old Executive
<BR>Office Building. Obama presented nine taxpayers who he said were better <BR>off because of tax breaks enacted in the recent economic stimulus package, <BR>including a tax credit for working families worth up to $800 this year.<BR><BR>Still, thousands of protesters marked the day federal income taxes were <BR>due by attending hundreds of “tea parties” from Florida to Hawaii, <BR>organizers said. The rallies were promoted by FreedomWorks, a conservative <BR>nonprofit group led by Dick Armey, a lobbyist and Texas Republican who <BR>once served as House majority leader.<BR><BR>In a pre-rally telephone interview from Atlanta, where he was preparing to <BR>speak on the steps of the statehouse, Armey conceded that “the federal tax <BR>rate right now is at a good level.” But, he said, “there are very few <BR>people who believe Obama will be content to leave it at that.”<BR><BR>Armey said the real target of the protesters’ ire is not the
current tax <BR>rate but the much higher one that will be needed to pay for trillions of <BR>dollars in financial-sector bailouts; the stimulus package, which is <BR>projected to add nearly $800 billion to the federal debt over the next 10 <BR>years; and Obama’s ambitious health-care and education initiatives, which <BR>are projected to raise the debt by trillions of dollars more.<BR><BR>“There’s no way he can do the spending he does and cut taxes for most <BR>people,” Armey said. “People know that spending inevitably means more <BR>taxes.”<BR><BR>The White House stuck to its own low-taxes message Wednesday, as Obama <BR>repeated his “clear promise that families that earn less than $250,000 <BR>will not see their taxes increase by a single dime.” Asked whether Obama <BR>is confident that he can stick to that pledge throughout his <BR>administration, press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters: “He is. He <BR>is. He
is.”<BR><BR>------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Seeya at the Wingding, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>Join us at The First Annual Intolerista Wingding, April 17th, featuring <BR>Roy Zimmerman and Jeanne McHale. For details go to . . .<BR><BR><A href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Wingding" target=_blank>http://www.MoscowCares.com/Wingding</A><BR><BR>Seeya<BR>there.<BR><BR>---------------------------------------------<BR>This message was sent by First Step Internet.<BR> <A href="http://www.fsr.com/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.com/</A><BR><BR><BR></DIV><BR>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR><BR>
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