[Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political humor)

[Bill Effros]

Brad,

Is this a test?

Is something wrong with your calculator?

Do you think no one will ever check?

Why am I dividing $172 billion by 10 years by 300 million people?

For starters, it doesn't come to $5700 per year for every man, woman and 
child.

What it does come to probably won't buy that many Wheaties 10 years from 
now.

Why don't you try that calculation again and tell me if you get the same 
number the second time.

Bill Effros

Brad Haslett wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Mr. Dunavant didn't abuse the system.  The system was written to stack 
> the
> cards in his favor. The bigger and more successful you are the more you
> get. The program was designed to help small farmers. Over 70% of the
> payments goes to the top 10% of recipients.  Small and new farmers get
> squeezed by the program because it runs up the cost of farmland by non
> farmer landowners.  God forbid you try and educate them or anyone else
> though.  People either have their vested interests or they've bought into
> the Big Agri-business lobby advertising.  As to cheaper food, divide $172
> billion by ten years by 300 million people.  That's $5700 for every man,
> woman, and child each year.  That's a lot of Wheaties.
>
> Brad
>
>
> On 7/5/06, DCLewis1 at aol.com <DCLewis1 at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/30/2006 11:25:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> flybrad at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> You  wrote, "we have an implicit obgligation to look after our  fellow
>> citizens."
>>
>> Is this one of the poor farmers I'm supposed to be  worried about?
>>
>> _www.ewg.org/news/story.php?id=4321_
>> (http://www.ewg.org/news/story.php?id=4321)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Brad,
>>
>> My concept of an implicit contract obligation to look after our fellow
>> citizens clearly doesn't condone people abusing farm subsidies, or
>> abusing  any
>> other program.  It says straighten out the abuses, treat each 
>> citizen  as
>> a
>> citizen - and, oh by the way, because they pay taxes, or could pay  
>> taxes,
>> and
>> because they are personally invested in the future of the  country on a
>> continuing
>> basis,  they are entitled to special rights,  considerations, and other
>> entitlements beyond some foreigner who has nothing  invested in this
>> enterprise
>> called America and can reasonably be expected to  contribute nothing 
>> once
>> the
>> economic transaction is completed..
>>
>> Dave
>>
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