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host · 07-31-2007, 11:10 AM

ace.... are you saying that anyone who bought Halliburton stock had connections, inside info, and influence that could be compared to "the juice" that the 3 Bushes, Cheney, and Erik Prince had with the folks who let the contracts, designated and appropriated the funds, and the knowledge that they all had, as to the timing of when and where to invest or to enter into business relationships?

If, as you say, the rich have ways to avoid taxes, rendering them meaningless, why did the fifteen welthiest US families spend more than $100 million, in a secret campaign to attempt to eliminate inheritance taxes, and why do their politics seem obsessed with lowering taxes and elimination of progressive income tax? Are their efforts to help the rest of us? Where do the billions collected from inheritance taxes, come from?

Why, after the Bush income tax cuts, did it take six years for tax revenue to rise just six percent, vs. the amount collected in 2000?

Why do you almost never support your claims with linked references that the rest of us can consider, learn from, or attempt to rebut?

dksuddeth, why can you not accept that progressive income taxes attempt to offset the outsized power and influence of the wealthiest and the oopportunities that those assets give them to accumulate even more?

I asked for anyone who objects to progressive income tax and inheritance tax to show how their proposed tax reform preference allows for any offset to the advantages of the wealthy that a progressive and an inheritance tax affords on them, and you have offered.....what ?

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host Banned	ace.... are you saying that anyone who bought Halliburton stock had connections, inside info, and influence that could be compared to "the juice" that the 3 Bushes, Cheney, and Erik Prince had with the folks who let the contracts, designated and appropriated the funds, and the knowledge that they all had, as to the timing of when and where to invest or to enter into business relationships? If, as you say, the rich have ways to avoid taxes, rendering them meaningless, why did the fifteen welthiest US families spend more than $100 million, in a secret campaign to attempt to eliminate inheritance taxes, and why do their politics seem obsessed with lowering taxes and elimination of progressive income tax? Are their efforts to help the rest of us? Where do the billions collected from inheritance taxes, come from? Why, after the Bush income tax cuts, did it take six years for tax revenue to rise just six percent, vs. the amount collected in 2000? Why do you almost never support your claims with linked references that the rest of us can consider, learn from, or attempt to rebut? dksuddeth, why can you not accept that progressive income taxes attempt to offset the outsized power and influence of the wealthiest and the oopportunities that those assets give them to accumulate even more? I asked for anyone who objects to progressive income tax and inheritance tax to show how their proposed tax reform preference allows for any offset to the advantages of the wealthy that a progressive and an inheritance tax affords on them, and you have offered.....what ? Last edited by host; 07-31-2007 at 11:15 AM..