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Old 09-04-2003, 12:32 PM   #46 (permalink)
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Originally posted by MrSelfDestruct
I feel that, while I have no real right to be telling people on the other coast what to do, I should throw in some facts on Huffington.

She is running in an election to replace someone who is being replaced mainly due to budget issues. She owns a $7M house, yet last year paid less than $800 of federal income tax.

I wouldn't want her trying to get my state out of a budget crisis.

I also think that we should put Davis' head on a ple with the Enron executives who helped to create an fictional energy crisis last year in order to divert more state money into their pockets by exporting energy to Nevada and buying it back from Enron subsidiaries and affiliates at much higher than the allowed price for in-state purchases.
Of course, that might qualify her as the perfect person to run the state .

Seriously, though, while I was following her line of reasoning that what she did was perfectly acceptable under the tax code (being that writers' incomes are cyclical--I'll hold off on final judgement until next year when she files taxes on this year's income which, by her accounts, has been profitable) I have run that argument by a few people who I knew to be non-supportive of her platform. At least one person stated that, while 'legal', he could do the same thing. That is, he (my prof) could write off his losses to avoid paying taxes but that certainly wasn't 'right', in his opinion.

I agree with that sentiment. I respect Bustamante's world view. By all accounts he worked as a migrant worker (pciking cotton and peaches) and his family (brothers and sisters) worked hard over the summer to kick off his political background (they worked to help pay for his living expenses while he worked under a mentor program for a politician). IIRC, he just received his bachelors. While I may not agree with all his policies or all of his actions I do believe he is the closest candidate that shares my world view.

No matter what the experiences of the other candidates none of them can ever really look at life with the same lense that working class people have--despite what they say or even how hard they may actually try.
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