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

[Brad Haslett]

Bill,

You are correct, I am wrong.  That is what happens when you use an
accounting caluclator and don't set the decimal point to float instead of
cut the last two off for cents.  Also, when you write fast because your wife
is waiting for you.

The argument remains the same. Mr. Dunavant collected 167 million dollars in
the last ten years to buy his ranch.  He wasn't the biggest and that was
only one crop.

Brad


On 7/5/06, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> 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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