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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 04:29 PM
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ATM creeping up on middle class - and you thought Bush LOWERED taxes???
Hey, you got your $300 back, WOW! Who CARES if we kill 100,000 Iraqis over oil even though you're paying more for it and we're running up debt like a college student with their first credit card! You got your $300! Yea!

Only *NOW* you'll be paying BACK that $300 AND MORE...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050224/ap_on_bi_ge/taxes_minimum_tax

The story isn't new, but in our society with the attention span of a cat chasing a moth, who would remember articles like this one (outlining basically the same thing) which reviewed the tax code passed two years ago with the slated increases:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4660655/

It just boggles my mind those who will think, "Damn those Democrats!"
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 05:00 PM
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1. Another group that is going to regret voting for that idiot in the WH.
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Massacure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-05 11:06 PM
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2. $300, a drop in the bucket compared to the $25,000 they need back!
Edited on Thu Feb-24-05 11:07 PM by Massacure
$25,000 x 290 million people = covers the 8 trillion dollar debt.
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oecher3 Donating Member (127 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 10:53 AM
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3. oh well...
And I am surprised, NOT, that despite the return $300 check we get from Mr. B. my household's middle class tax return has decreased every year, since Bill Clinton left the white house.

ps. isn't it AMT in your title?
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:56 PM
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5. Whoops! My typo - n/t
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SeanQuinn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 10:55 AM
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4. CHA-CHING!
That tax cut was just paper, when you are going to have to pay back what you once had cut.
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