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| Kamaka2 | Re:Report on Chief Justice Roberts,etc | Wed, 7 Jun 2006 01:35:21 EDT |
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Interesting Pat. The Poll tax was abolished in the 60s, or possibly the
70s. Don't know about AZ, but only MEN paid a poll tax, in any state I knew of,
not women. It had it's root in the southern states, as a method to keep
blacks from voting, and apparently spread to other states, even New England,
although there wasn't a large minority population there.
Plenty of poor people though.
Yes, it's too bad that Bush has totally ignored the "principals" of the
Republican Party, ie; small Gov't, States Rights, the Bill of Rights, and put us
into debt for $8,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion $), by borrowing money from
40 different countries. Right now, you owe $28,000 dollars to be paid in
future taxes, as does every man woman and child, in this country, but Mr Bush
has given massive tax cuts to those who earn over a Million+ dollars a year.
That means, of course, that you and I have to pick up the difference, and our
great-great-grandchildren will STILL be paying it off.
Recently saw an estimate of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld's tax savings, based
on their current worth, under their new cuts. Cheney makes out the best. He
will save $102 MILLION in future taxes, Rumsfeld and Bush somewhat less, due
to their promotion of those cuts.
PS: The "death" tax (estate tax) is only paid by estates of over a 1 1/2
million $$, and will affect only 20 families, presently, like the Walmart
owners. In fact, that idea was proposed to the Republicans, who support it, by
only 18 families, who will benefit from it. Yep, those Repubs sure care
about the little guys....NOT!
Fran
You must do things differently in HI. If you wanted to come to a Republican
meeting in AR you would be welcome. The Republicans would do their best to
change your mind but would never think of throwing out someone they regard as so
unfortunate. I was a Democrat until about 40 years ago. Their was no way to
vote any other way. We had poll tax to pay each year and I became disgusted
with the practice of buying the poll tax and then giving it to people who were
so uneducated or uninterested that they would vote the way they were told.
When Winthrop Rockefeller came to AR and began to promote the Republican
Philosophy, I changed sides and haven't looked back. The only thing about
President Bush that disappoints us is that he isn't acting on the principals that he
was elected on. There is no way I can ever imagine that I would change to
Democrat. But that is what makes politics so interesting.
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