Because our reps really don't represent us very well once they are in office. Many of us write in regularly to our elected officials to no avail on many subjects. I can write to Judy Biggert, for instance, till I am blue in the face (or hand I guess hehehe) and have every other progressive in the district do the same and it has no effect. The sheeple here keep electing her even though all she does is toe the republican party line on 90% of the issues.
-----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 03:05 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: [politics] Cost of tax cuts for the rich exceeds gains by budget cuts Soooo......if everyone knows about this, and knows that it sucks....why don't we do something about it?????? There MUST be another side to this....what is it? On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Casey Dougall < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:55 PM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Eric Roberts < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > They actually pay a lower rate of taxes after all the loopholes, > rebates, > > > and tax shelters they can take advantage of that most people in > > > the > > middle > > > and lower classes don't have available....so no, the actual rate > > > is > lower > > > than ours. > > > > > > > So remove or limit the loopholes, rebates and shelters that are > > available only to the super rich (whatever those are). Do you have an specifics? > > > > > > > > > *http://tinyurl.com/3kqtv5x > > *The Florida Public Research Interest Group celebrated Tax Day by > releasing a report< > https://www.floridapirg.org/home/reports/report-archives/more-reports/ > more-reports/the-tax-shell-game-how-much-did-offshore-tax-havens-cost- > you-in-2010 > >that > breaks down the cost of offshore tax havens, which allow corporations > and the rich to avoid $100 billion a year in taxes. > > The strategy allows corporations and wealthy individuals to shift > money they earned in the U.S. to low-tax or tax-free jurisdictions, > often tiny places like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, and then funnel > the money back into the country. > The lost revenue from such tax-avoidance schemes equals $434 for the > average U.S. taxpayer, according to the report. Florida's share of the > lost revenue amounts to $4.4 billion, or about $290 per taxpayer - > lower than the national average because Florida contributes a smaller > share of federal taxes. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336488 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
