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April 06, 2004Taxes, Complain, Complain, Complain...By Karl-Thomas MusselmanEveryone complains about taxes, right? Certainly if you are a Republican or a Business. Then you really get up in arms. But I sense a new theory. The "It's All Just for Show" theory in which you make a big stink about taxes to get people who pay them to vote for Business Interests (which for the sake of fun I will call Republicans in Congress), but in reality you let Businesses just pay, or not pay, whatever they want, regardless of what rate they are. Proof Positive?
I wish us normal people could have the same luxury. And by normal people I'm including Republicans that aren't CEOs. So that includes Owen and Mark in the regular people category, unless one of them plans to come to the defense of the Billions not being paid by the likes of Kenny Boy Lay and Company? I mean, if corperations pay their taxes, doesn't that mean the government needs less of ours? Or at least doesn't need to raise them or go further into deficit to pay for the $150 Billion extra that the Medicare Plan accidently will cost. Just some food for thought as we fill out our tax forms before the 15th. Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at April 6, 2004 02:42 PM | TrackBack
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If we are going to have an income tax (which I do not support), then it should apply equally to all economic entities, individual and collective. Hit up everyone for the same percentage and stop granting tax breaks, incentives, and whatnot for every lobbyist that begs for them. Posted by: Charles Hueter at April 6, 2004 04:08 PMTwo points: Yes, because 70% of major companies were making no profits in the late 90s. I forgot i needed a statistic on that one. Posted by: Karl-T at April 6, 2004 08:43 PM
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