Wes wrote:
"John R. Carroll" wrote:

91 million Americans live on less than 200 percent of the federal
governments definition of poverty for a family of four.
IOW, less than $24,000.00 per yerr.
America's problem isn't taxes.

Does that 24G include what they get from the (un) earned income tax
credit?

It includes anything reported as income so the answer is yes.

You seem to be deliberately missing the point.
You can't cut federal income taxes meaningfully for someone not earning
enough to pay federal income tax. They are at zero now.
91 million Americdans fall into this category.
Absent federally and state funded health insurance programs, not one of them
would have insured medical coverage. They would be treated and the hospitals
would just have to eat it Wes, so you would end up paying their way in any
event. The difference, which you seem totally oblivious to, is the cost of
treatment under this scenario is astronomically high because they don't seek
treatment before a near death health crisis.

I watched John Boehner deliver a prepared statement on Sunday. He seems to
think everything will be just fine if we cut taxes and spending
dramatically. He's either simple or he thinks everyone else is.

The ONLY way the American economy is going to realy get back on it's feet is
for American's to EARN MORE.
America is rapidly becoming a country of eight dollar an hour indigents and
John Boehner and has followers see a prosperous future in America as more of
that?

Give me a break.
Carly Fiorina is just as bad and she's running for the US Senate seat Boxer
occupies.
I watched her say that she's very pleased to run on her record of
acomplishments in business.
When she took the helm at HP they were a specialty, high value added
manufacturer of the best electronic equipment in the world.
Their margins were excellent except for thier printer products unit. There
had been a real downturn there but that was sales related.
Her prescription for success, which nearly ruined HP, was to get them OUT of
the high value added stuff that was making them a fortune and buy Compaq - a
commodities maker whose profit margins wouldn't feed a family of field mice.

The board at HP got rid of her ass just in time. She would now like to go to
the Senate and visit her vision of prosperity on America.
She, John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell would have you riding a bicycle to
and from work Wes. You'd have to because you would be making what Chinese
workers are paid. There is an upside, however. Your taxes would be very low
and you wouldn't have to worry about health insurance once you couldn't pay
your COBRA from whatever you have saved over the years.
LOL

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John R. Carroll