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Davis Eichelberger
 
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Default OT - Is this representative of US public opinion? UK Newspaper Front Page

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:59:23 -0500, Renata wrote:

The question is, can anyone disagree with these facts?

for example, something not well advertised beyond stating that the tax
cuts are NOT only for the wealthy:

"88%: Percentage of American citizens who will save less than $100 on
their 2006 federal taxes as a result of 2003 cut in capital gains and
dividends taxes"

SNIP

I'm not going to take the time to point out all the logic faults in a =
bunch
of statistics compiled by a considerably biased "news" organization,
especially considering this is a woodworking group. But for example in =
the
above figure it isn't 88% of working Americans, or 88% of Americans aged
18-65 or any other meaningful statistic. Sure the 30% of Americans under
21 will save less than $100 due to a cut in the tax on capital gains, so
what? A large portion of the Americans over 85 will probably not save a
bunch either. =20

Davis Eichelberger